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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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The road to success is always under construction

- Lily Tomlin

Happiness Quote

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

- Maxim Gorky

Wisdom Quote

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

- Carlos Castaneda

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

- Confucius

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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

- Albert Einstein

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