Country Inequality

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“As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)

“However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)