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Quotes about Feudal

Naturally wealth had a bad reputation. Two things changed. The first was the rule of law. For most of the world's history, if you did somehow accumulate a fortune, the ruler or his henchmen would find a way to steal it. But in medieval Europe something new happened. A new class of merchants and manufacturers began to collect in towns.10 Together they were able to withstand the local feudal lord.
- Paul Graham
What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!
- Dorothy Sayers