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«Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy»
«No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.»
«I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Be Free, free, ignorant, lie, slave, slaving, To Tell the Truth
«I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
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in order, job, order, slave, slaving, that is to say, turned
«Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.»
«There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his»
«Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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