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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Taxation
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Edmund Burke
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What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? – Marquis De Custine

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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. – Confucius

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. – Elias Canetti

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It is the growling man who lives a dogs life. – Coleman Cox

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