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How much better it would have been, say others, to mind our own business!
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “How much better it would have been, say others, to mind our own business!”
Editor's note · Context
Reid reflects on the sentiment that the U.S. should focus on its own affairs rather than foreign conflicts.
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