Evidence of justice and law will make but a small impression on such a man, while evidence of goodness will make a prodigious impression upon him. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Evidence of justice and law will make but a small impression on such a man, while evidence of goodness will make a prodigious impression upon him.

Henry Ward Beecher

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