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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

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Call me Ishmael.

— Ishmael (narration) · Ishmael in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851)

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

— Ishmael (narration) · Ishmael in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851)

It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

— Ishmael (narration) · Ishmael in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851)

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

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