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The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time.
This phrase is typical of Melville's sentence construction. Comparison is the mean and reason is the goal.
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