Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman MelvilleMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1851 · Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn
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Herman Melville · Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
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“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
- Author
- Herman Melville
- Work
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
- Year
- 1851
- Chapter / part
- Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn
- Length
- 10 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #2701
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Herman Melville died in 1891, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1851. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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