"L'égalité sera peut-être un droit, mais aucune puissance humaine ne saura le convertir en fait."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact. — La Duchesse de Langeais (1834), translated by Ellen Marriage, part II