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Brief author info: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) French statesman and Minister of Finance to Louis XIV of France.

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness Quote

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

Love Quote

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- G. K. Chesterton

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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

- Albert Einstein

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