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.
—Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Topics: Taxes, Taxation
When a king creates an office, Providence at once creates a fool to buy it.
—Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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