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Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. - John Donne

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. – John Donne

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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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