The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

  • -- William Cobbett 威廉·科贝特

税收的趋势是创造一个不劳动的阶级,从劳动的人那里拿走劳动的产品,并把它给那些不劳动的人。

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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

我不知道该怎么办,也不知道该把这件税收的事交给谁。一定有一本书能告诉我所有的事情,我可以在那里理清我的思绪。但是我不知道书在哪里,如果我找到了,也许我不能读它。

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

把一切事物和事物的原则都看成是不固定的模式或风尚,已越来越成为现代思想的倾向。

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

人类把小事看得很重要的倾向产生了很多伟大的事情。