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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of Revenge.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 73dcd0c0d578cb6fcd97917ff889be3ed443abb28cb223de266b125e355b8f03
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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