| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World |  |
| Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. | Charlotte Bronte | Villette |  |
| . . . she better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge |  |
| You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end? | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters |  |
| We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |  |
| Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Elsie Venner |  |
| ". . . I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies." | Charles Dickens | Bleak House |  |
| "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." | Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House |  |
| When one grew old, the whole world was in conspiracy to limit freedom, and for what reason?--just to keep the breath in him a little longer. He did not want it at such cost. | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga |  |
| She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |  |
| "Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion." | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park |  |
| "Liberty is worth paying for . . . " | Jules Verne | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |  |
| "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . ." | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |  |
| "You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action." | W. Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage |  |
| "The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage." | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary |  |