Famous quotes containing the words green, tax and/or shift:
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the battle of Bunker Hill, at least.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side?from sorrow to sorrow?to button up one cause of vexation!and unbutton another!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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