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Revenge is a kind of wild justice that the law ought to weed out
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- Francis Bacon English philosopher, lawyer and statesman (1561 to 1626)
REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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↗The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625 edition)gutenberg.org
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