...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second;…

Herman Melville
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...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort. ✨ Herman Melville (2002). Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic, p.42, Spinner Publications
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