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Milford Haven, which is at your door, may serve to show you that the mere advantage of ports, is not the thing which shifts the seat of commerce from one part of the world to the other.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke uses Milford Haven as an example to illustrate that mere geographical advantages do not determine trade success.
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