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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale Quotes: [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
         

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.


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