From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps,
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I'm not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.
The trumpets sound, the banners fly,
The glittering spears are ranked ready; ...
The glittering spears are ranked ready; ...
A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is a danger of capsizing. But democra
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You protest too much.... You cannot tolerate a faith in humanity, because if you do, all this, the structure of your very existenc
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Many were the wit-combates betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great Gallion, and an English man of War;
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I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature
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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.
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope o
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In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, curses
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