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"When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!"
- Melville, Herman

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22892">When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without -- oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4932/">Melville, Herman</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/leaders_and_leadership/">Leaders and Leadership</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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