## Metadata * Author: [[Herman Melville]] * ASIN: B002RKRU9A * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002RKRU9A ## Highlights But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. — location: [1150](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=1150) ^ref-16531 --- drew out some thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on the table, and mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed one of them towards me, and said it was mine. — location: [1172](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=1172) ^ref-34458 --- It is not down in any map; true places never are. — location: [1218](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=1218) ^ref-31593 --- Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar. — location: [2787](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=2787) ^ref-12583 --- And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred. — location: [4216](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=4216) ^ref-3217 --- If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; — location: [4280](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=4280) ^ref-749 --- And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is—"How many skulls?"—the same way that whalers hail—"How many barrels?" And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each other's villanous likenesses. — location: [4308](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=4308) ^ref-27903 --- GAM. NOUN—A SOCIAL MEETING OF TWO (OR MORE) WHALESHIPS, GENERALLY ON A CRUISING-GROUND; WHEN, AFTER EXCHANGING HAILS, THEY EXCHANGE VISITS BY BOATS' CREWS; THE TWO CAPTAINS REMAINING, FOR THE TIME, ON BOARD OF ONE SHIP, AND THE TWO CHIEF MATES ON THE OTHER. — location: [4323](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=4323) ^ref-4378 --- Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo. "'Lakeman!—Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo?' — location: [4375](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=4375) ^ref-29074 --- Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any. — location: [4391](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=4391) ^ref-18339 --- Michigan oxen drag stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. — location: [5908](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=5908) ^ref-37970 --- Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! — location: [7935](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B002RKRU9A&location=7935) ^ref-7422 ---