Herman Melville (1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
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Hermann Melville
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Herman Melvill
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
Yet, after all, insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, my not the savage be the happier man..?
