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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories QUOTES

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories QUOTES

1 " In certain matters, some sailors even in mature life remain unsophisticated enough. But a young seafarer of the disposition of our athletic foretopman is much of a child-man. And yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. But in Billy Budd intelligence, such as it was, had advanced while yet his simplemindedness remained for the most part unaffected. "

― Herman Melville , Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories