Andrew Melchior

“Thus, more of the ordinary person’s money got syphoned off into the Exchequer, where it largely financed war and paid the interest due to wealthy investors in the National Debt.”
― Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century

“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
― ram dass

“In J. H. Plumb’s words, in Georgian society, ‘without protection, the poor and the weak and the sick went under; the rich and the strong prospered’.”
― Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century

“The rural economies of most of ancien régime Europe were trapped in cycles of over-population and under-production: chronic indebtedness, exhausted soil, paltry grain yields, uneconomic fragmentation of holdings and population pressure spelt mass misery and periodic disasters. But the English had earned their pardon from this death sentence.”
― Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century