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  • Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years

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    Herbert Woodfield Paul, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Edward Gibbon, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1915). “Men and Letters”
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Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years - Edward Gibbon
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