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It is not fish merely; it is gold, the produce of that avocation.
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Sumner highlights the economic value of fisheries, comparing them to gold in terms of their importance.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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