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When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.
Francis Moore, Almanac. Monthly Observations for 1829, p. 23. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60. | ||
