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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
William Cobbett
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William Cobbett
Age: 72 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 9
Died: 1835
Died: June 18
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Without bread all is misery.
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The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.
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Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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You never know what you can do till you try.
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I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
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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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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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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 management] for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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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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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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Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
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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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Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
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From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
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The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure and these are great advantages but they are diligent and make the most of everything.
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WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
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