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All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an

inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain

fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from

sea-weed to a sailor's yarn, or fish-story.

Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

We must come down from our heights, and leave our

straight paths, for the byways and low places in life,

if we would learn the truths by strong contrasts; and in

hovels, in forecastles, and among our own outcasts in

foreign lands, see what has been wrought upon our

fellow-creatures by accident, hardship, or vice.

Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast