Proverb
The rights and privileges of the Polish(-Lithuanian) nobility became proverbial. A popular Polish saying avers:
Szlachcic na zagrodzie równy wojewodzie—literally,
"The noble on his estate is equal to the voivode"In Poland to these days it means that there is no man that a freeman (a better, philosophical meaning of 'szlachcic') would think of as a superior.
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