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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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People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Funny Quote

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

- George Carlin

Inspirational Quote

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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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

- Marcel Proust

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

- Albert Einstein

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