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There are but few Englishmen that have 

 taken money to America who can keep it. 

 I know no one who will have it in his power 

 to bring back so much as he carried out. 

 Some few, indeed, who have gone thither 

 without cash, have acquired it there ; but 

 none have increased property they be- 

 fore possessed. In consequence, I do not 

 see the least encouragement for a man to go 

 amongst them, except it be to try his skilL 

 I think it an extraordinarily good place for 

 a young person to go to on his outset in 

 life : or if a man should be so unfortunate 

 as to have married a wife of a capricious 

 disposition, let him take her to America, 

 and keep her there three or four years in a 

 country-place at some distance from a town, 

 and afterwards bring her back to England ; 

 if she do not then act with propriety, he 

 may be sure there is no remedy. But I am 

 of opinion that it would be a certain cor- 

 rective. 



The Americans have as good opportu- 

 nities to learn as any people ; for there are 

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