"The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution."
— Walter Raleigh

January 1, 1970

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Supposed to have been said by Raleigh to his friends as he was being taken to prison, on the day before his execution (William Stebbing Sir Walter Raleigh (1891), chapter 30)