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It was entirely the fault of the government. All the poor people were becoming so rich in such an atrocious way that it left well-intentioned ladies of the manor like herself to study their passbooks very closely indeed.
“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― The Empirical Observations of Algernon
― The Empirical Observations of Algernon
“she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
“You do not seem to appreciate the intensity of Julia’s feelings towards the Department of Inland Revenue. She is under the impression that it is a vast conspiracy having as its sole objective her physical, mental and financial ruin.”
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
― Thus Was Adonis Murdered
“It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen.”
― Smallbone Deceased
― Smallbone Deceased
“Sometimes, indeed, he went so far as to visualise himself as an archangel, a rotund St. Michael, armed with the sword of Dymond and defended by the shield of Green, protecting the helpless from the assault of the massed powers of Darkness, those arch-fiends, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.”
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