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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Sir Arthur Helps
Manifest
Chains
Freedom
Men
Rattle

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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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