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Distinction Quotes by Olympe de Gouges
- Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
- Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to…
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- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the… — William Bartram