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“The severest justice may not always be the best policy.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6fdcdfe0602b89358ad418180aca9c36a7d831be226a53f238ab520329647165
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.”
Juvenal
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Publius Syrus
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“It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.”
Sophocles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.”
Phædrus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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