"Taxation is the legitimate support of government."

-- Adolphe Thiers

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“Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.21, New Directions Publishing
“I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.”
“The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.”
“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK
“Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.”
“wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it”
“Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.”
“I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.”

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