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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The Revenue Act of 1913
Cicero, On the Agrarian Law I 4.7 (tr. John Henry Freese):
Does any coin ever seem so carefully hidden that the authors of this law have not smelt it out?
numquisnam tam abstrusus usquam nummus videtur, quem non architecti huiusce legis olfecerint?