No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.


Night, an Epistle to Robert Lloyd (1761), line 271


No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.

No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.

No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.

No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.