The more you look into it, the more infinite are the class distinctions among men; and possibly, by a happy dispensation, there is no one at all at the bottom of the scale; no one but can find some superiority over somebody else, to keep up his pride withal.
越细究,人与人之间的等级差别就越显得无穷无尽;或许,某种幸运的安排使得没有人真正处在最底层——每个人都能找到某方面胜过他人,借此维持自己的自尊。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · An Inland Voyage (1878) · Class distinctions —