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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.

"Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916 - 1935". Book by Mark De Wolfe Howe, Volume 2, p. 942, 1953.
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.