He was paraphrasing a remark by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, a delegate to the Estates-General of 1789, who said the third estate is everything, has nothing but wants to be something.
索维的这番话是对1789年的法国议会代表爱曼纽•约瑟夫•西耶士言论的阐释。 后者认为，第三等级至关重要，虽然他们一无所有，但却梦想出人头地。
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