Tax Collector Quotes

“A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector may be forgotten and, peradventure, forgiven.”
― E. Norman Torry, Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books

“[He] had introduced himself as a tax collector, and the conversation had gone downhill from there.”
― K.L. Mitchell, The Road to Kalazad