Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 82.
“It is not easy to conceive the difficulties we have had.”
Knox to George Washington on the difficulties of taking to Boston. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
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