Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases. Guns, Germs And Steel
It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. Book V
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. Martin Chuzzlewit
The hand of God creates; it does not conceal. The Name of The Rose
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