Could our folks but see what numbers of Merchants, and even Shopkeepers here, make great estates by American folly; how many shops of A, B, C and Co with wares for exportation to the colonies, maintain, each shop three or four partners and their families, every on with his country-house and equipage, where they live like Princes on the sweat of our brows.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Timothy Folger, from London, September 29, 1769
[According to Franklin, stop importing so much from people who aren’t friends of ours, and sending our money to them.]
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