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  • Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

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    Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.247

  • The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

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    Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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

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    Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.140, Penguin
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Herman Melville

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