Captain Aubrey

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    What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.
    Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)

    In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
    They hung the thief upon the cross:
    But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
    They hang the cross upon the thief.
    —Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)