“There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist—the taxidermist leaves the hide.”

Quoted in Time magazine article Taxes: Enter Balance Due Here http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829745,00.html, 1 February 1963 http://books.google.com/books?id=YufVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+one+difference+between+a+tax+collector+and+a+taxidermist+the+taxidermist+leaves+the+hide%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage

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Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; prominent tax attor… 1916–2019

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