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though many can forgive injuries, none ever forgave
 contempt.
9. In laying these taxes, never regard the heavy
burdens those remote people already undergo, in defending
 their own frontiers, supporting their own
provincial government, making new roads, building
bridges, churches, and other public edifices; which
in old countries have been done to your hands by
your ancestors, but which occasion constant calls and
demands on the purses of a new people. Forget the
restraint you lay on their trade for your own benefit,
and the advantage a monoply of this trade gives
your exacting merchants. Think nothing of the
wealth those merchants and your manufacturers acquire
 by the colony commerce; their increased ability
thereby to pay taxes at home; their accumulating, in
the price of their commodities, most of those taxes,
and so levying them from their consuming customers;
all this, and the employment and support of thousands
 of your poor by the colonists, you are entirely
to forget. But remember to make your arbitrary tax
more grievous to your provinces, by public declarations
 importing that your power of taxing them has
no limits; so that, when you take from them without
 their consent a shilling in the pound, you have
a clear right to the other nineteen. This will
probably weaken every idea of security in their
property, and convince them that under such a
government they have nothing they can call their
own; which can scarce fail of producing the happiest
consequences!
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