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Quote by Bernard Berenson
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. – Bernard Berenson

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I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson

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Excess
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Bernard Berenson
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. – Bernard Berenson

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Age
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Bernard Berenson
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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. – Lord Thomas Dewar

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Read my lips: no new taxes. – George Bush

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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. – Prince Philip Edinburgh

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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain. – Randolph Churchill

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