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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Approximate author period: c. 1697 AD · renaissance
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- Daniel Defoe
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- Approximate author period: c. 1697 AD · renaissance
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Daniel Defoe. · page_216
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