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Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
William Cobbett
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William Cobbett
Age: 72 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 9
Died: 1835
Died: June 18
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A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
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However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
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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.
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A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
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I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.
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The power which money gives is that of brute force it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
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The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
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But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.
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I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
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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 believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
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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.
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If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.
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Please your eye and plague your heart.
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