"Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy."
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"Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?"
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"Can man be free if woman be a slave?"
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"I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature."
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"If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?"
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"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued."
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"Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman."
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"The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both."
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"Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand."
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"One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves."
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"I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear."
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"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave"
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"The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions."
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"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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"I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces."
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"We are the slaves of slaves"
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"They are hare-brain'd slaves."
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"But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool."
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"Let us leave hurry to slaves."
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"My characters are galley slaves."
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