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enclosed all round by a strong high
But the gate from the yard into the garden was locked at night, and there was no other way of entering it, for it was enclosed all round by a strong, high fence.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

exercise and read books and sing hymns
You grind these people down into what is really an economic slavery and dependence, and then you insult and degrade them by inviting them to exercise and read books and sing hymns in your settlement house, and give their children crackers and milk and kindergartens and sunlight!
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill


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