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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.
         

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.


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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.
         



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