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NUMBER:9119
QUOTATION:A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
ATTRIBUTION:Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. A Vindication of Natural Society (1756), repr. In Works, vol. 1 (1865).
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