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now that I've made non-importation sound so impressive,
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I will add that it ultimately was not a roaring success because,
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as I just hinted a minute ago,
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not everyone really found it very easy to surrender English luxuries,
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and as always there was a lot of smuggling.
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So it wasn't an amazing roaring success but that said,
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there was some impact on British manufacturers
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and there was some recognition
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that considering the relatively small amount of revenue
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being raised by the Townshend Acts,
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maybe the effort wasn't worth all of the trouble.
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So some onlookers in Britain began to regret the Townshend Acts.