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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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It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.

- Norman Washington Manley

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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

- Dr. Seuss

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You cannot wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

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A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting for something better to come along.

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