Burden Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

“We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.”

Willard Van Orman Quine

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