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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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Farnham
Surrey
Dick Retort
Peter Porcupine
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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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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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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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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.
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DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.
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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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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
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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.
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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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WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
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Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.
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He who writes badly thinks badly
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The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.
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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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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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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.
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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
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