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Book: Billy Budd, Sailor
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  1. Herman Melville _ Billy Budd, Sailor

    But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
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  2. Herman Melville _ Billy Budd, Sailor

    and yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.
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  3. Herman Melville _ Billy Budd, Sailor

    Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
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  4. Herman Melville _ Billy Budd, Sailor

    For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.
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  5. Herman Melville _ Billy Budd, Sailor

    His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.
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