So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.247
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So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.