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Injustice is repaid with frightful compound interest
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- Thomas Carlyle Scottish essayist and historian (1795 to 1881)
The heavier this Napoleon trampled on the world, holding it tyrannously down, the fiercer would the world's recoil against him be, one day. Injustice pays itself with frightful compound-interest.
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↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org
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