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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy -- I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

by:	Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"
Source:	Holmes-Laski Letters�: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916 - 1935�(1953), Vol. 2, p. 942.