“The kinder, more patient and attentive you are, the more of your bars I will remove, so that in some months—who knows how soon?—you will become perhaps more free than I am, in the sense that you will not want to curtail my liberty.”

—  Alessandro Cagliostro

Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)

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