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- The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper
- At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- 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.
- George Wither
- Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- 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.
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.
- Wernher Von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.
- John S. Coleman
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