Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ✨…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.217
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.217

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