"For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done."

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Source : 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 17, ch. 16

Thomas Malory

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“He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.”
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Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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