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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who cannot be acquainted with me taxes me, looking from afar at
me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical
end---not as I, but as he happens to fancy.  Behold the consequence.
Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Politics", p. 307

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