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  • But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.

    Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.259, OUP Oxford