Monday, December 15, 2025

 

The Mark of a Happy People

William Cobbett (1762-1835), Rural Rides, ed. George Woodcock (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 376 (Stroud, Gloucestershire, September 12, 1826):
The people seem to have been constantly well off. A pig in almost every cottage sty; and that is the infallible mark of a happy people.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:40 AM


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