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• We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• All governments are more or less combinations against the people.
  . .and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled....
• Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. -- Benjamin Frankli
• It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
  -- Comins' Law...
• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.