There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
(The Wealth of Nations, 1776)
Adam Smith
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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