"But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status."

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Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

Edward Jenks

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“I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.”
“I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter
“One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.”
“For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.”
“All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it.”
“Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.”
“Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.”

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