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• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments, which is why we need a productivity rebate.
  -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac...
• We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
• We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to William Strahan, 1745...
• Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Frankli
• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
  -- Benjamin Frankli...
• Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. -- Benjamin Frankli
• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775...