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“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”

Ifs Would Be Liberty Poverty Capable England Revolutionary Destroying Abolish Bloodshed Revolutionary Change

Book:The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White

Source: The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”

Real Facts Lying Poverty Emotional Intellectual Weakness Ideals England Court Coast Creeps Incomplete Lanes Drunkenness Armament

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.”

Children States Poverty Highest England Rate Average New England

Author:Patrick J. Kennedy