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It is probably the first debt ever assuming the title of Consolidation that did not express what the amount of the sum consolidated was.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It is probably the first debt ever assuming the title of Consolidation that did not express what the amount of the sum…”
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Burke critiques the terminology used in describing a debt consolidation that lacks clarity on the amount involved.
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