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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.
         

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.


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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.
         



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