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> [Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-mccourt/before-the-famine-which-was-in-the-1840s-that-was-an-emotional/)

[Frank McCourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-mccourt/)

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> [Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a population affected was the Irish famine of the 1840s, which came close to 10 percent over a number of years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/hardly-any-famine-affects-more-than-5-percent-almost-never-more-than/)

[Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/)

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