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It may be generous, charitable, kind; but the surrounding principle of those qualities is always their exercise as of grace and not in justice.
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Harold J. Laski
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Editor's note · Context
Laski critiques the nature of charitable acts within an aristocracy, suggesting they stem from grace rather than justice.
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