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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
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For My Part I Love Sleepy Fellows,

Herman Melville
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.
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