"Better sleep with a sober cannibal…" — Herman Melville

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Mieux vaut dormir avec un cannibale sobre qu'avec un chrétien ivre.

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“We cannot live only for ourselves A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men”

Herman Melville

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