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Quotation from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

“To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”

Herman Melville (spoken by Starbuck)

Moby-Dick, Chapter 36 (Project Gutenberg #2701)

Portrait of Herman Melville

The chief mate alone objects when Ahab announces the true purpose of the voyage.

Citation: "To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous." — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 36 (Project Gutenberg #2701). (id moby-dick-q8)

Portrait: Moby-Dick FE title page, The original uploader was Chick Bowen at English Wikipedia., Public domain.

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