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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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Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears.

- John Lennon

Life Quote

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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There are times when sorrow seems the only truth.

- Oscar Wilde

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To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

- Sun Yat-sen

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