John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4876 Sydney Smith 1771-1845 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4876 |
| AUTHOR: | Sydney Smith (1771–1845) |
| QUOTATION: | The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States, 1820. |