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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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Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

- G. K. Chesterton

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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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You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

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Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

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