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Through tatter’d clothes great vices do appear;
Robes and furr’d gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it.

William Shakespeare on justice

King Lear (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene VI, spoken by Lear

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