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Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes: As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
         

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.


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