“In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.”

Benito Cereno, Putnam's Monthly ( October 1855 http://books.google.com/books?id=TlYAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22In+armies+navies+cities+or+families+in+nature+herself+nothing+more+relaxes+good+order+than+misery%22&pg=PA356#v=onepage)

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891

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