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Nor learning, nor private virtues, nor venerable years could save him from justice.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Nor learning, nor private virtues, nor venerable years could save him from justice.”
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He asserts that no amount of learning or virtue can protect someone from facing justice.
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