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“Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.”
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- Source:
- To Althea from Prison, iv.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ac39f258b23ef52d232996b7b6eec9d7eb0f09ce044b54f46470264b894351e8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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