Tax/history

Famous quotes containing the words tax and/or history:

“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)

“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)