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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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Relationship Quote

A man keeps another's secret better than he does his own. A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own better than another's.

- Jean de La Bruyere

Wisdom Quote

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

- Bob Marley

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

- Carlos Castaneda

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It always seems impossible until it's done.

- Nelson Mandela

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