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Do you think I was born to live the life of an oyster, such as I do live here?

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over

nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space