Are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.
Herman Melville (1819-1891). Billy Budd, Sailor, ch. 2
2 comments:
OH MY!
yes for Frank
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