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When you put three millions on to the public expenditure, you create a number of new relations, a number of new offices, a number of new claims, a number of new expectations.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “When you put three millions on to the public expenditure, you create a number of new relations, a number of new offices…”
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Morley emphasizes the complexities that arise from increasing public spending.
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