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Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
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With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.
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We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
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Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Born:
August 6, 1715
Died:
May 28, 1747
(aged 31)
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