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How to use the word jailer in a Sentence?

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Caging and enslaving these animals so you can have a fun day at SeaWorld is not the answer, captivity is still captivity no matter how gentle the jailer or the size of the cell.

– John Hargrove

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8 years ago

Captivity is still captivity no matter how gentle the jailer or the size of the cell.

– Pamela Anderson

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8 years ago

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

– Eugène Delacroix

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10 years ago

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.

– John F. Kennedy

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13 years ago

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

– W. Somerset Maugham

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14 years ago

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad

– Alan Marshall Beck

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14 years ago

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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14 years ago

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

– Anthony Robbins

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14 years ago

Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

– I. F. Stone

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14 years ago

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