"This souls'prison we call England."
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"Prison house for the soul"
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"No love is foule, nor prison fair."
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"No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington."
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"When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons."
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"Make not thyself the judge of any man."
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"Convictions are prisons."
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"If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way."
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"The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape."
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"In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just."
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"The living grave of crime."
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"If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender."
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"The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release."
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"I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated."
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"Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time."
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