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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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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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Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
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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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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
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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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All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.
William Cobbett
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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Please your eye and plague your heart.
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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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Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
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But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, the metropolis of the empire?
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Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
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Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.
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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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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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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
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Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
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However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.
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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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