From Erewon, by Samuel Butler
KEPT
"No. Men are kept at their posts, not by fear that if they quite them they may quit a frying-pan for a fire, but by the hope that if they hold on, the fire may burn less fiercely."
From Chapter 17, Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites
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