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Since then
fortune has smiled on us and increased our revenues, and the exchequer now
receives four hundred instead of one hundred talents, though no property-owner
suffers any loss but is rather the gainer, for all the rich citizens come up to
receive their share of this increase, as indeed they have a perfect right to do.
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