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The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head Herman Melville

's vice is not from crookedness of heart or viciousness but rather from exuberance of vitality after long constraint.

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

is one who, on his deathbed, can ask for a mirror so he might look at the sea for the last time.

On his deathbed, the old sailor asked for a mirror so he could look at the sea for the last time.

is, when without a ship, like a restless and uneasy ghost seeking salvation

A sailor without a ship is like a restless and uneasy ghost seeking salvation.

is a man who makes his living on water but never touches it on shore

is wrecked by the shore while the ship is wrecked at sea.

A ship may be wrecked at sea, but it's the shore that wrecks a sailor.

is someone who goes round the world without going into it.

Sailors go round the world without going into it.

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