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Literary notes about equal (AI summary)

The word “equal” in literature serves as a versatile tool, used both in literal and metaphorical senses. Authors employ it to denote precise measurement or equivalence in physical attributes—as seen in descriptions of geometrical distances or thicknesses ([1], [2], [3])—as well as to evoke a sense of balance and fairness in human character and social standings. For instance, “equal” highlights idealized concepts such as fairness in rights and opportunities ([4], [5]), and even in the realm of personal worth, where characters are recognized as equals in esteem or ability ([6], [7], [8]). At the same time, it bridges the tangible with the abstract by linking numerical or physical equality with moral or intellectual parity, reinforcing both quantitative and qualitative dimensions of equality throughout literary discourse ([9], [10]).
  1. If you mark off the distance ab equal to the side cd the directions of the cuts are very evident.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  2. And the last of these two distances was equal to the breadth of the bright Light or luminous part of the first Fringe.
    — from Opticks : by Isaac Newton
  3. The buns must be regarded as of equal thickness throughout and of equal thickness to each other.
    — from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  4. That we are born "free and equal" is a glorious truth in one sense, yet we are not all born equally rich, and we never shall be.
    — from The art of money getting : by P. T. Barnum
  5. The fundamental principles of the Constitution set forth equal rights to all.
    — from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
  6. Yes yes—I know Sir Peter vows He has not his equal in England; and, above all, He praises him as a MAN OF SENTIMENT.
    — from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  7. Leuillet loved his wife now with a quiet and trustful affection; he loved her as a tender, devoted companion who is an equal and a confidante.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  8. [pg 629] you treat me quite like an equal.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. And a third, which is equal to either of them? BOY: Yes. SOCRATES: Suppose that we fill up the vacant corner? BOY: Very good.
    — from Meno by Plato
  10. “My friend,” said Monte Cristo, with an expression of melancholy equal to his own, “listen to me.
    — from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

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