| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35116 |
| QUOTATION: | This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | T.E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence (1888–1935), British soldier, scholar. The Revolt in the Desert, ch. 35 (1927).
Also known as Lawrence of Arabia. |
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