“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
L'égalité sera peut-être un droit, mais aucune puissance humaine ne saura le convertir en fait. <br class="br"> La Duchesse de Langeais http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Duchesse_de_Langeais (1834), translated by Ellen Marriage, part II.
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