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“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has…”

“Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafal…”

“Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creat…”

“To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shad…”