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Their purpose has been to offer justice to all, and their hope has been that what was just would be seen to be advantageous.
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John Morley
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Morley emphasizes the intention of the government to provide justice to all parties involved.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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