Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A mi…

Mark Helprin
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Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain. ✨ Mark Helprin (1989). Winter's Tale, Pocket Books
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