Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 50 of the 1993 Third Edition of the late Carlo Cipolla’s 1976 book, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700:

[T]he mass of the people generally had to content itself with local products and that only the well-to-do could afford exotic produce. The ability of the average man in the street to walk into a shop in Milan or in London to buy something produced in Hong Kong or Tangier is a recent development made possible by the Industrial Revolution.