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“Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- ef6bc25530495325cda9d0ddc146c0695f6cb3cdf9450e5df2f6a7c5e6e8a05b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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