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Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849

I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

Edgar Allan Poe on justice

The Cask of Amontillado (1846)

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