| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38803 |
| QUOTATION: | Peradventure at this instant, there are beings gazing up to this very world as their future heaven. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 175, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970).
Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Melville Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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