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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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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

- Paulo Coelho

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One love, one heart, one destiny.

- Bob Marley

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

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The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.

- Jack Harris

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