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“There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.... To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
Essayist and statesman
Joseph Addison, The Guardian, (1713)
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