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Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Herman Melville
War, Fighting, Men
Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.304

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.

Herman Melville
Fighting, Fire, Years
Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.73, Penguin

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.

Herman Melville
Dog, Fighting, Animal
Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.327, Velvet Element Books

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