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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
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If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable…
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I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural…
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826,…
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Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price…
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I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over…
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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or…
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I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade,…
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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do -…
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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the…
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to…
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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Revile those who flatter you.
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They…
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