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“I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.” Jack London, White Fang
“I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated.” Jack London, The Call of the Wild
“MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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