EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. (Samuel Johnson)

EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.

Samuel Johnson

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