“The evil of confinement is not to be remedied by outrage, but it is so great an evil, that it looks like tameness of apathy to be perfectly resigned to it.”

— Thomas Hodgskin

Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 165, Vol. 1

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British writer 1787–1869

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