Famous quotes containing the words escaped, prison and/or fourteen:
“...I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 19:20.
“Whensoever any affliction assails me, me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so: and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgements upon them.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“At fourteen I married My Lord you.”
—Li Po (701–762)
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