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justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it
justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it
Approximate author period: c. 1907 AD · modern
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- Don Marquis
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- Approximate author period: c. 1907 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Don Marquis: life dates 1878 to 1937. Wikidata Q321378, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321378 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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