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Equal Quotes by David Hume
- But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;…
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either…
- [A personÂ’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
More Equal Quotes
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- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal… — Honore de Balzac
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