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Justice always is, whether we define or not. Everything done, suffered, or proposed in Parliament, or out of it, is either just or unjust; either is accepted by the gods and eternal facts, or is rejected by them.
Justice always is, whether we define or not. Everything done, suffered, or proposed in Parliament, or out of it, is either just or unjust; either is accepted by the gods and eternal facts, or is rejected by them.
Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Carlyle
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- Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
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