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Letter "D" » detention
«I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.»
Author: Antonio Gramsci
(Founder, Politician)
| Keywords:
at bottom, detainee, detention, emotionally, political detainee, political prisoner, prisoner, refused, tranquil
«HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. _House-dog_, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. _House-maid_, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appal, appropriation, appropriations, bacilli, bacillus, cockroach, Cockroaches, detention, disagreeable, disagreeable person, domestic, edifices, erected, flea, habitation, Hardy, hollow, house of detention, ingeniously, microbe, microbes, mortgage, mosquito, Mosquitoes, offenders, pestilent, service station, steeple, steeples, The Station, unclean, variously
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