Thoughts, my mindes creatures, often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.

On all these men, on their favour or unfavour depended my future fate, and I was received in the most kind of gentle manner.

Sheffrin has written a book of Gladwellian sweep, one that synthesizes and translates large swaths of fascinating social science research, while also enlivening the analysis with engaging stories from the trenches of tax policy and public finance.

Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low