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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Honore de Balzac

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Honore de Balzac
Age: 52 †
Born: 1799
Born: May 20
Died: 1851
Died: August 19
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Onoreh deh Balzaḳ
Lord R'Hoone
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Ūnūrīh dī Balzāk
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Hônôrê đơ Banzăc
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