I came across this by N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) again recently. Now, that's what I call a level playing field.
It's from an 1820 Grundtvig poem Langt høiere Bjerge, or in English, Far Higher Are Mountains In Other Lands Found (translated here).
Grundtvig was a contemporary of Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard and is credited with being part of the inspiration behind the Danish welfare state. I seem to remember that Keirkegaard was rather derisive of him.
It occurs in both The Politics of Affirmative Action: 'Women', Equality and Category Politics by Carol Lee Bacchi (1996) and in Marie Tourell Soderberg's (2016) Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness.
Guess where I first came across this?