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The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

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The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

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An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.

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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.

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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 amount of hissing.

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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

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At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

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I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.

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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

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