jailer quotes

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.He it iswho notesthat individuality whichistheseal oftheweakness ofourrace.Mysoul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

-Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Euge'  ne
  The Journal of Euge'  ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4  Jun.

You were the jailer of your murdererö

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
English  reformer   and  novelist.  Called  to   the  Bar   in  1848,   a Liberal  MP  (1865^74)  and  a  county  court  judge  (1882),  he  is best  remembered  for  his  semi-autobiographical  classic, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1856).

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