It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus"
City of Lost Angels
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Ingersoll, The Philosophy of Ingersoll (1906), "Fragments"
US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899)
Zodiac Lounge Auction
AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
US author & satirist (1842 - 1914)
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