“I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.”

— John James Cowperthwaite

March 24, 1966, page 213.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

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British colonial administrator 1915–2006

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Letter (10 February 1804).

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William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

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“My conscience is my crown,
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My heart is happy in itself,
My bliss is in my breast.

Enough I reckon wealth;
A mean the surest lot,
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“O fading honours of the dead!
O high ambition, lowly laid!”

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Canto II, stanza 10.
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“See, I went to an all-gay high school. Art and Design. Now the truth is it wasn’t really all gay, but they bused them in, it was the law. […] So I went to this high school, I had friends like Pablo. Pablo used to breast-feed a porcelain doll during math. You know. My friend Lauren used to roll cigarettes on her boots.”

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This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

“I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.”

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