We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains

Mark Twain
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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain. ✨ Mark Twain (2005). The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings, p.213, Univ of California Press
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