III. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.
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Chapter II Part II, p. 893Adam Smith
Maybe it was a music box.
Scott shouldn't have felt depressed. The gadgetry would have given Einstein a headache and driven Steinmetz raving mad. The trouble was, of course, that the box had not yet completely entered the space-time continuum where Scott existed and therefore it could not be opened. At any rate, not till Scott used a convenient rock to hammer the helical nonhelix into a more convenient position.
He hammered it, in fact, from its contact point with the fourth dimension, releasing the space-time torsion it had been maintaining. There was a brittle snap. the box jarred slightly, and lay motionless, no longer only partially in existence. Scott opened it easily now.Lewis Padgett
Seasons change with the scenery;
Weaving time in a tapestry.
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time?Paul Simon
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
David Lloyd George
He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.
William Somerset Maugham
I used to be one of the guys, you know. I used to be another faceless contributor in a wall of opinion. I miss those days. (1 August 2008)
Ben Croshaw
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