William Cobbett Quotes

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

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The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.

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I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age

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You never know what you can do till you try

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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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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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As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.

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