The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is mad…

C. S. Lewis
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The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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