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I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.
Jerome Lawrence
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Jerome Lawrence
Age: 88 †
Born: 1915
Born: July 14
Died: 2004
Died: February 29
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Cleveland
Ohio
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