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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 is a journey, not a destination.

- Anonymous

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

- Oscar Wilde

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Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Jack London

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

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