Justice Clifford

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    The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
    —Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)