“LOUIS XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, believed that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.”
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“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread." Charles Caleb Colton 1825.”
― Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
― Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
Bojan’s 2025 Year in Books
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