William Cobbett Quotes

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• Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power…
• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing…
• The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of…
• It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
• To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,…
• The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people…
• Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money…
• Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
• Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
• Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
• Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
• Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles!
• Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy…
• However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
• The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
• To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
• Please your eye and plague your heart.
• Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
• Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

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