• Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

    Benjamin Franklin: Taxes are indeed very heavy - 
 We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. 
 Three times as much by our Pride. 
 And four times as much by our Folly.
    Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.248