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4887. LUXURIES, The Republic and.—

I own it to be my opinion, that good will arise
from the destruction of our credit [in Europe].
I see nothing else which can restrain
our disposition to luxury, and to the change
of those manners which alone can preserve
republican government.—
To Archibald Stuart. Washington ed. i, 518. Ford ed., iv, 188.
(1786)