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If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

Source: Letter, 17 Nov 1851; in The Letters of Herman Melville, 1960.
-- Herman Melville, (Aug 1 1819-1891), US novelist; He is noted for his stories of the sea, especially the classic Moby Dick, 1851.

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