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Coal is the fuel under the British pot which makes it boil.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Coal is the fuel under the British pot which makes it boil.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner metaphorically describes coal as the essential fuel that drives England's economic engine.
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