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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."
"Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety."
"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."
"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."
"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."
"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were."
"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."
"Employment is the greatest dream killer."
"None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform."
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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
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