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When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke suggests that the reality of commerce with the colonies surpasses any fictional or imaginative representations.
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