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“An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.”

Mind Looks States Shows Lasts Justice Serious Birth Regard Tables Court Meetings Clouds Envy Graves Distinction Gambling Melancholy Alliances Assembly Agitate Solicitude Rancor

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.”

Men Virtue Birth Glory Add Clouds Vices Distinction Tweens

Author:William Habington

“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.”

Self Wanted Law Religion Women Secret Happened Birth Dignity Essence Add Accidents Accepted Chosen Symbols Distinction Meaningless Brotherhood Judaism Hood Stigma Yoke Initiation Kosher

Author:Jessie Sampter

“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.”

Has Beens Term Rights Birth Citizens Equal Protection Distinction Native Entitled Precise Adopted Equal Rights Equal Protection

Author:James K. Polk

“Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.”

Men Children Persons Doe Hard School Three Youth Birth Men And Women Adults Following Burden Commit Command Distinction Cradle Maidens

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me”

People Voice Careers Talent Birth Equality Distinction Thrones Maxims Oligarchy

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte