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I am afraid there is more vice, more misery and penury in this country than in any other, and at the same time greater wealth. . . The contrasts are too striking, and such an unnatural, artificial, and unjust state of things neither can, nor ought to be, permanent. I am convinced that before many years elapse these things will produce some great convulsion.
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―Charles Greville, 1829, quoted in
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Stanley