Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virt…

Mark Helprin
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Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. ✨ Mark Helprin (1983). Winter's Tale, p.288, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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