For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. (Eric Ambler)

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Eric Ambler

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