English - Politician | March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835
Please your eye and plague your heart.
William Cobbett
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You never know what you can do till you try.
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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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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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Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.
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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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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
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Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
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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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I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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