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The house is a castle which the king cannot enter.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The house is a castle which the king cannot enter.
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I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through castle's eyes. i think castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. a very, very clever man, but i want to see the world as castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.
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By this time, half the people in high norland were gathered in royal square to stare at the castle. they all watched with disbelief as the castle rose slightly into the air and glided toward the road that led southward. it was hardly more than an alley, really. "it'll never fit!" people said. but the castle somehow squeezed itself narrow enough to drift away along it and out of sight. the citizens of high norland gave it a cheer as it went.
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Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. to guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.
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The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. it may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the king of england may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
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