“Lieutenant Seymour: Wyatt, we do not deal with justice here, but with the law.
Lieutenant Wyatt: Was not the one conceived to serve the other?”

—  Peter Ustinov

Billy Budd (1962)

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English actor, writer, and dramatist 1921–2004

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