Quote#Politics & Power
Small properties, much divided, prove the greatest source of misery…
Quote byArthur Young · 1741–1820
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Arthur Young (1789), quoted in: Samuel Laing (1842), Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy and Other Parts of Europe During the Present Century, p. 35.
English (original)
Small properties, much divided, prove the greatest source of misery that can possibly be conceived, and has operated to such a degree and extent in France, that a law ought certainly to be made to render all division below a certain number of arpens illegal.
— Arthur Young
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