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JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT French statesman and financier (1619 - 1683) Let it alone. Let it pass by.   [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]       - according to Lord John Russell, see report of his speech in London "Times", Apr. 2, 1840         [Politics] The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.       - [Taxation] When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.       - [Office] Last Revised: 2008 June 30 Copyright © 1999-2008 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. The GIGA name and logo are trademarks registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by John C. Shepard.  WWW.GIGA-USA.COM     Back to Top of Page

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