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As the tree waved South waved his head, making it his fugleman with abject obedience. ‘Ah, when it was quite a small tree,’ he said, ‘and I was a little boy, I thought one day of chopping it off with my hook to make a clothes-line prop with. But I put off doing it, and then I again thought I would; but I forgot it and didn’t. And at last it got too big, and now ‘tis my enemy, and will be the death of me. Little did I think, when I let that sapling stay, that a time would come when it would torment me, and dash me into my grave.’ (W, p. 97)
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J. S. Mill, ‘On Liberty’, Collected Works, XVIII, (London, 1977), p. 262
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Fisher, J. (1992). The Woodlanders (1887): The Beginning of the End. In: The Hidden Hardy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22156-1_8
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