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Indeed, there is scarce a nation in Europe, against which she has not made war on some frivolous pretext or other, and thereby imprudently accumulated a debt, that has brought her on the verge of bankruptcy.
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Franklin: “Indeed, there is scarce a nation in Europe, against which she has not made war on some frivolous pretext or other, and…”
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Franklin points out the folly of England's wars and the resulting debt crisis.
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