Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
Birthday: August 1
Death: September 28
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
source: Herman Melville (2015). “White Jacket, the World on a Man-of-War: Works of Melville”, p.85, 谷月社
topic: Men, Brave, Capes, Seamen