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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

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Quote Author: Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes Laërtius (Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Diogénes Laértios), the biographer of the Greek philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname from the town of Laerte in Cilicia, Asia Minor, and by others from the Roman family of the Laërtii.

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