I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profoun…

Herman Melville
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. ✨ Herman Melville (2016). Bartleby, The Scrivener, p.3, Herman Melville
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