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“ ”Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby, in a singular mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.
About Herman Melville
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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I would prefer not to.
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for immortality is but ubiquity in time
Born in throes, ‘t is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then!
What could be more full of meaning? — for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.