I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain hi… - Herman Melville

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I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.

Herman Melville

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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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