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“Give an inch, he'll take an ell.”

— Thomas Hobbes

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Wikiquote: Thomas Hobbes
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Context

Liberty and Necessity (no. 111)

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Hobbes, Thomas. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Thomas Hobbes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes

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