Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. - Mary Astell - Quotesmemo.com

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And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

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Mary Astell

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

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