tax-return

Updated: June 19, 2025

His "advertisement" was nothing in the world but a wicked tax-return a string of impertinent questions about my private affairs, occupying the best part of four foolscap pages of fine print questions, I may remark, gotten up with such marvelous ingenuity that the oldest man in the world couldn't understand what the most of them were driving at questions, too, that were calculated to make a man report about four times his actual income to keep from swearing to a falsehood.

Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)