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William Cobbett
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William Cobbett
Age: 72 †
Born: 1763
Born: March 9
Died: 1835
Died: June 18
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Farmer
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Farnham
Surrey
Dick Retort
Peter Porcupine
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More quotes by William Cobbett
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
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.
William Cobbett
Freedom is not an empty sound it is not an abstract idea it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.
William Cobbett
Please your eye and plague your heart.
William Cobbett
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
William Cobbett
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
William Cobbett
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
William Cobbett
Without bread all is misery.
William Cobbett
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.
William Cobbett
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett
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.
William Cobbett
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.
William Cobbett
DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.
William Cobbett
All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.
William Cobbett
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.
William Cobbett
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
William Cobbett
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
William Cobbett
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett
Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.
William Cobbett
Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.
William Cobbett
