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There is no reason whatever why the mantles which are worn by English ladies should be sewn at Berlin and in Whitechapel, instead of in Devonshire or Derbyshire.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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He argues for the local production of garments instead of relying on distant manufacturing.
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