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When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
Approximate author period: c. 1832 AD · industrial
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- Alexis de Tocqueville
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- Approximate author period: c. 1832 AD · industrial
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