See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.…

Herman Melville
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. ✨ Herman Melville (2006). Moby Dick the Whale Volume I EasyRead Ed, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com
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