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Clearly, it is better to do so than to suffer France to possess those spoils and that territory alone; which, without doubt, unresisted by us, she is altogether as able as she is willing to do.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that it is preferable for Britain to share in the spoils of the New World rather than allow France to take them unopposed.
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