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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
William Cobbett
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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.
William Cobbett
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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
William Cobbett
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett
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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.
William Cobbett
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The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
William Cobbett
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Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
William Cobbett
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
William Cobbett
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett
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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.
William Cobbett
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett
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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
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