Countries Tax

Famous quotes containing the words countries and/or tax:

“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)