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Edmund Burke: “Do not delude yourselves: you can never receive it,--no, not a shilling.”

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Do not delude yourselves: you can never receive it,--no, not a shilling.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke warns that the expectation of receiving any revenue from the colonies is misguided and unrealistic.

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