British Agricultural Revolution/british Agriculture 1800%e2%80%931900

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    Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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    You don’t know what you might be if you would look beyond the ball, the opera, the fashion-plate—and right over the heads of the perfumed, mustached bipeds who call themselves men and worship at your feet.
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    In past years, the amount of money that has had to be been spent on armaments, great and small, instead of on productive industry and agriculture and the arts, has been a disgrace to all of us in every part of the world.
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