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  • Within different elements of life, we need to find the freedom, not the encagement.

    Yes Weekly 2009

  • While this encagement of the lepers was under way, two other sailors had appeared with buckets of soapy water and now proceeded to wash down the handrails of the gangplank, after which normal passengers were allowed to board, and when they had hurried below to escape the smell of the forty caged lepers the captain shouted, "All right!

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

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