Famous quotes containing the words escaped, prison and/or fourteen:
“I heard of one man who complained that somebody had stolen his boots in the night; and when he found them, he wanted to know what they had done to them,—they had spoiled them,—he never put that stuff on them; and the bootblack narrowly escaped paying damages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So must pure lovers’ souls descend
T’affections, and to faculties,
Which sense may reach and apprehend,
Else a great Prince in prison lies.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote,
Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat?
I’m fourteen years old, that is the reason,
I giggle and dote in season.”
—Stevie Smith (1902–1971)
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