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«Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.»

Author: Edmund Burke (Philosopher, Statesman) | About: Taxation | Keywords: add to, bungler, bunglers, compositions, contrive, projector, projectors, taxing

«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»

Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: abilities, appearing, chimera, chimeras, choosing, confirmed, consult, eminent, employment, entered, entertained, extravagant, favorites, instructing, irrational, know the score, maintained, ministers, monarchs, persuading, placing, princes, professors, projector, projectors, proposing, public good, Public place, qualified, schemes, School of, services, the Monarch, The school

«The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds; nor has any part of the world y»

Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: excursion, fortuitous, hostility, projector, projectors, promiser, vagrant, vagrants

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