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> # See The Confidence-Man

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## More from Herman Melville

1. > If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be p…

[Permalink to quote \#41](https://quotesby.net/Herman-Melville/41/ "Permalink to quote 41")
2. > With shouts the torrents down the gorges go, And storms are formed behind the storm we feel: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel.

[Permalink to quote \#43](https://quotesby.net/Herman-Melville/43/ "Permalink to quote 43")
3. > And here Bartleby makes his home, sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous- a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the rui…

[Permalink to quote \#40](https://quotesby.net/Herman-Melville/40/ "Permalink to quote 40")

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