Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. (Karl Marx)

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

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