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• The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
• One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
• Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to…
• Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and…
• Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
• Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
• Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
• If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than…
• Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and…
• Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one…
• I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like…
• Home is where the books are

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