Ambrose Bierce quote about slavery from The Devil's Dictionary - DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.
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DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.
 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911). copy citation

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Author Ambrose Bierce
Source The Devil's Dictionary
Topic slavery debt chain
Date 1911
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972-h/972-h.htm

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“Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world; the mad race run Through to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole!
Squatol Johnes DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.
As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.” source

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