"The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless……" — Sydney Smith
"The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him"
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Sydney Smith
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