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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
William Cobbett
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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March 9, 1763
Died:
June 18, 1835
(aged 72)
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