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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

In the original French

L’égalité sera peut-être un droit, mais aucune puissance humaine ne saura le convertir en fait.

Honore de Balzac
La Comedie humaine · 1834
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EqualityHuman rights
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Novel
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1834
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Honore de Balzac
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De Balzac, Honoré. Ne touchez pas la hache [Don’t Touch the Axe]. L'Écho de la Jeune France, 1834.

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