Stone walls do not a prison make

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External constraints cannot imprison someone whose spirit and thoughts are free. This saying is taken from a poem, “To Althea: From Prison,” by the seventeenth-century English poet Richard Lovelace.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

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And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
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The court ruled she lacked the maturity to make her own medical decisions.
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
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Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.
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She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
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