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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin

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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. – William Cobbett

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

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. – J. B. Colbert

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