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It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (1850), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987).

Categories: Argument, Author, Authorship, Infinity

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