The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
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- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: british
- Born: November 16, 1811
- Died: March 27, 1889
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It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals.
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