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grown rich at your expense deliberately
"We have explained to you," said they, "what hypocrites the British are,—what dust they have thrown in your eyes for more than a century—how they have grown rich at your expense, deliberately keeping India in ignorance and subjection, in poverty and vice, and divided against itself.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

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