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Their effects are only a little earthen-ware, and their houses only a handful of straw, the sale of a thousand of which would not perhaps produce twenty shillings.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke describes the dire living conditions of the impoverished farmers, emphasizing their lack of resources.
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