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I may be immured in dungeons, chained, murdered in legal form, but I cannot be humiliated or disgraced.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “I may be immured in dungeons, chained, murdered in legal form, but I cannot be humiliated or disgraced.”
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Beveridge asserts that despite physical imprisonment, one's spirit and honor cannot be diminished.
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