"[B]etween impulsive hearts and compulsive authority, you have consistently seasoned justice with mercy, and invigorated mercy with justice."
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In praise of Henry Parks Wright, referencing Portia's "quality of mercy" in The Merchant of Venice, IV, 1
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Bernadotte Perrin
(September 15, 1847 – August 31, 1920) was an American classicist and sometime Lampson Professor of Greek Literature and History at .
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