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Kindred is that other idea of one money; and both are forerunners, perhaps, of the grander idea of one language for all the civilized world.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of a universal language as a step towards global unity.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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