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Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by Mark Sample.

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complete revenge he had, and without being the avenger

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this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer

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“Sail ho!” cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-head.

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And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply

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Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale’s there?

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there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure

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all of us are Ahabs

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He is both ponderous and profound.

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I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of that sort

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in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern

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it is not customary for such venerable leviathans to be at all social

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The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers

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what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something

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a wave has such a great long start before it leaps, all round the world it runs, and then comes the spring!

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All Loose-Fish.

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all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

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“I fear not thy epidemic, man,” said Ahab

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I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles, and now the mad sea parts the log-line.

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The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing

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There are only two books in being which at all pretend to put the living sperm whale before you, and at the same time, in the remotest degree succeed in the attempt.

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—I come to report a fair wind to him. But how fair? Fair for death and doom

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The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan.

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so strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea

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where lies the virtue of ginger?

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this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes

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They think me mad

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For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and sentimentalist in Truth.

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God keep me from ever completing anything.

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they all glowed

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the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul

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one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea

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Wretched entertainment

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STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.

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What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it

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Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles, the elephant’s brow is majestic.

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speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee

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one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt and often lawless life

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Yet this is nothing

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surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights

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Will I have eyes at the bottom of the sea, supposing I descend those endless stairs?

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wondrous devices and dexterities

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this sort of thing is unpleasant enough

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all this is both foolish and unnecessary