Famous quotes containing the words parcel and/or tax:
“Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, & what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, & what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way;Mall this comes of Authorship.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)