All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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