#hostages

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ↗

— Lucan

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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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