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“Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.”

Values Three Equal Paid Ancient Proportion Consideration Division Divided Territory Quantity Wales Ancient Times

Author:Gerald of Wales

“The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.”

Should Taxes Equal Clothes Should Have Proportion Productive Proven Gasoline Equitable Painless Sales Tax Cheap Food

Author:Will Rogers

“So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.”

Should Hands Community Ability Objects Equal Raises Burden Debt Oppression Suits Operations Proportion Expenses Taxation Revenue Adapted

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Government Law Enjoy Justice Principles Equal Agree Every Man Abstract Proportion Stable

Author:Aristotle

“The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.”

People Shows Conditions Equal Mass Argument Weight Educated Proportion Application Deaf Knowledge Is Power

Author:Edward Miner Gallaudet

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

Age Literature Risk Equal Increase Relation Proportion Birthday Hesitation

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.”

Body Jesus Equal Proportion Trust In God Brides Commitment To God

Book:Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth

Source: Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth

“Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

Ifs Heart Littles Eye Dies Courses Secret Taken Too Much Our Lives Middle Tears Ought Equal Victim Pursue Insane Proportion Shore Shut Up Entering Fanatics Grim Frigidity

Book:Howards End: England Literature

Source: Howards End: England Literature

“.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness”

Men Way Needs Cry Equal Proportion Unhappiness

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky