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Sep 1·edited Sep 1

The similarly styled "clean hands" serves as a reference to an equitable axiom, "He who seeks equity, must do equity". My experience with the exercise of equity has led me to empathy for Shylock, who boldly insisted upon the exercise of law, only to be rebuffed by Portia and the Venetian goyim.

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So timely in many ways. Claire West Orr

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