William Cobbett Quotes

• You never know what you can do till you try.

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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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• 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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• DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people. Great desolation of abomination has been going on here.

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• All Middle sex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millions which it is continually sucking up from the rest of the kingdom.

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• Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. They are always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used by a news-monger.

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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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• It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

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• Please your eye and plague your heart.

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• I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

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• Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

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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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• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

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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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• Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

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• The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

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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.

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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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• To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

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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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William Cobbett (21)

Birth:	9th March, 1763
Death:	18th June, 1835
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Farmer, Journalist, Pamphleteer

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