It has cost England almost seventy millions sterling, to maintain a family imported from abroad, of very inferior capacity to thousands in the nation; and scarcely a year has passed that has not produced some new mercenary application.
Paine criticizes the exorbitant cost of maintaining the British monarchy, which he views as an imported family of inferior capacity.
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