They are as well-instructed, judicious and prudent a people as exist any where in the world, all professing, like myself, to be lovers of economy; and, from the many heavy taxes required from them by the necessities of the state, have surely an abundant reason to be economical.
Franklin praises the economic sensibility of a particular group of people, acknowledging their heavy tax burdens.
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