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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. — Herman Melville

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851
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Effects of alcohol
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Novel
Time
1851
Person
Herman Melville
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Current citation
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 3.
Original citation
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 3.

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