Richard Rolle Quotes
The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.
Rolle, Richard. The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises. Translated by Geraldine E. Hodgson, Thomas Baker, 1910, p. 59.
He observes that the richest people and businesses tend to be monopolies or dominate a market although very often the are not the best.
Richard Rolle was an English hermit, mystic, and religious writer. He is also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, since at the end of his life he lived near a Cistercian nunnery in Hampole, now in South Yorkshire. In the words of Nicholas Watson, scholarly research has shown that "[d]uring the fifteenth century he was one of the most widely read of English writers, whose works survive in nearly four hundred English ... and at least seventy Continental manuscripts, almost all written between 1390 and 1500."
