“779. He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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William S. Burroughs
(1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
"Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs", written in 1956, first published in The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2 (January 1957), p. 1 and later used as footnotes in Naked Lunch
“You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLI : Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast; Helen to Esther
Samuel Johnson
(1709–1784) English writer
September 23, 1777, p. 363
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Context: It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.
William Ernest Hocking
(1873–1966) American philosopher
Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.
“He takes the strangest liberties —
But never takes his leave!”
John Godfrey Saxe
(1816–1887) American poet
"My Familiar".
James A. Garfield
(1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Costly Grace, p. 45.
