Would that all excellent books were foundlings, without father or mother, that so it might be, we could glorify them, without including their ostensible authors. (Herman Melville)

Would that all excellent books were foundlings, without father or mother, that so it might be, we could glorify them, without including their ostensible authors.

Herman Melville

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