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... wisdom is the constant complaint of Don Quixote , although the knight is him- self guilty of uttering proverbs upon occasion . Melville may have remembered Don Quixote as par- ticularly given to proverbializing , however . In his poem ...
... wisdom is the constant complaint of Don Quixote , although the knight is him- self guilty of uttering proverbs upon occasion . Melville may have remembered Don Quixote as par- ticularly given to proverbializing , however . In his poem ...
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... wisdom of the world and heavenly wisdom had appar- ently troubled Melville for some time . In Moby - Dick he had written that " man's insanity is heaven's sense , " and in Pierre he had paraphrased the Pauline passage and pro- vided its ...
... wisdom of the world and heavenly wisdom had appar- ently troubled Melville for some time . In Moby - Dick he had written that " man's insanity is heaven's sense , " and in Pierre he had paraphrased the Pauline passage and pro- vided its ...
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... wisdom is punctuated with cynical remarks from the darkness . The cosmopolitan questions the apocryphal Wisdom of the Son of Sirach and muses that if wisdom advises man to beware of his fellows , then " What an ugly thing wisdom must be ...
... wisdom is punctuated with cynical remarks from the darkness . The cosmopolitan questions the apocryphal Wisdom of the Son of Sirach and muses that if wisdom advises man to beware of his fellows , then " What an ugly thing wisdom must be ...
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