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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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A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is a journey, not a destination.

- Anonymous

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

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Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.

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