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Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.

— Wilkie Collins The Moonstone (1868)

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Also in Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England by Albert D. Pionke [Ohio State University Press, 2004, 0-814-20948-3] (p. 98)

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