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NUMBER:29041
QUOTATION:Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young,
And hast not yet the use of tongue,
Make it thy slave, while thou art free;
Imprison it, lest it do thee.
ATTRIBUTION:John Hoskyns (1566–1638), British lawyer, wit. “To His Son.”

Written from prison in the Tower of London.
 
 
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