There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amu…

Edmund Burke
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There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. ✨ Edmund Burke (1852). The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, p.250
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