Quote by Evelyn Waugh
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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. – Evelyn Waugh

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. – Richard Lovelace

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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