Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Étienne-Gabriel Morelly

Born: 1717
Died: 1778 (aged 61)
Bio: Étienne-Gabriel Morelly was a French utopian thinker and novelist. An otherwise obscure tax official, Morelly wrote two books on education and a critique of Montesquieu.