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Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 628.
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