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So far as I am individually concerned, & independent of my pocket, it is my earnest desire to write those sort of books which are said to “fail.” - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Oct. 6, 1849, to his father-in-law, Lemuel Shaw. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993).

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