⬆️ In 17th C. fiction, down-to-earth #SanchoPanza said to #DonQuixote, “Dos linajes solos hay en el mundo, decía una agüela mía, que son el tener y el no tener…” As a grandmother of mine used to say, there are only two families in the world, the #HavesAndTheHaveNots… ➡️ https://opinion.inquirer.net/15545/the-haves-and-have-nots

In 18th C., #LouisSebastienMercier described the same as:

"Hatred grows more bitter and the state is divided into two classes: the #GreedyAndInsensitive, and #MurmuringMalcontents"

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1960/the-three-estates-of-pre-revolutionary-france/