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William Byrd II
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“The new proprietors [of New Jersey] inveigled many over by this tempting account of the country: that it was a place free from those three great scourges of mankind—priests, lawyers, and physicians. Nor did they tell a word of a lie, for the people were as yet too poor to maintain these learned gentlemen.”
William Byrd II (1674–1744) first seen 1728 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina (wr. 1728–36; pub. 1841); reported in Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Therapy of Distance", American Heritage, vol. 27, no. 4 (June, 1976), p. 23