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Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation--these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of the community compared with a fraudulent currency and the robberies committed by depreciated paper.
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He warns that ordinary forms of oppression are less harmful than the consequences of a fraudulent currency.
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