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Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Herman Melville
Sleep, Thinking, Commandments
Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.129, Cosimo, Inc.

For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

Herman Melville
Death, Heart, Sleep

The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville
Christian, Sleep, Men

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