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> [“In 1784, the new prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, reduced the tea tax from 119 percent to 12.5 percent. Cheap tea was then available to the masses, though elitists decried tea's ill effects on "persons of an inferior rank."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-stanton/in-1784-the-new-prime-minister-william-pitt-the-younger-reduced-the/)

Maureen Stanton

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## More by Maureen Stanton

> [“In 1784, the new prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, reduced the tea tax from 119 percent to 12.5 percent. Cheap tea was then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-stanton/in-1784-the-new-prime-minister-william-pitt-the-younger-reduced-the/)

Maureen Stanton

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