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Billy Budd
Farewell to the Rights of Man!
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Lieutenant Seymour
Wyatt, we do not deal with justice here, but with the law.
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Lieutenant Wyatt
Was not the one conceived to serve the other?
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Billy Budd
It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.
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Master At Arms Claggert
The sea is calm you said. Peaceful. Calm above, but below a world of gliding monsters preying on their fellows. Murderers, all of them. Only the strongest teeth survive. And who's to tell me it's any different here on board, or yonder on dry land?"
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Lieutenant Seymour
Aye sir, that is your right.
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Captain Vere
It's no right. Which one of us here have rights? It's my duty and I must perform it.
