Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Source: Bartleby the Scrivener
“None can usurp this height…
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest.”
"The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream" (1819), Canto I, l. 147
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