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  • The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.

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    Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.282, OUP Oxford
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Herman Melville

  • Born: August 1, 1819
  • Died: September 28, 1891
  • Occupation: Novelist
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