In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.
There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
I'm not a sheep.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.