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“In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
 
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George Canning
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   Apr 11, 1770
 
Date of Death:   Aug 8,  1827
 
Profession:   Statesman
 
 
 
 
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