It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
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