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William Cobbett Quotes
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 which has been honored by the name of speculation ; but which ought to be called Gambling. - William Cobbett Quotes
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. - William Cobbett Quotes
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every mans duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it. - William Cobbett Quotes
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. - William Cobbett Quotes
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. - William Cobbett Quotes
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. - William Cobbett Quotes
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. - William Cobbett Quotes
It is not the greatness of a mans means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. - William Cobbett Quotes
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. - William Cobbett Quotes
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. - William Cobbett Quotes
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. - William Cobbett Quotes
Please your eye and plague your heart. - William Cobbett Quotes
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. - William Cobbett Quotes
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. - William Cobbett Quotes
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 that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor. - William Cobbett Quotes
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. - William Cobbett Quotes
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. - William Cobbett Quotes
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 that the law gives us over them. - William Cobbett Quotes
You never know what you can do till you try. - William Cobbett Quotes
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