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It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real u...
By William Cobbett
I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybody in matter o...
By William Cobbett
I began my editorial career with the presidency of Mr. Adams, and my principal object was to render his administration all the assistance in m...
By William Cobbett
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed...
By William Cobbett
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...
By William Cobbett
A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
By William Cobbett
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
By William Cobbett
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
By William Cobbett
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.
By William Cobbett
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.
By William Cobbett
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.
By William Cobbett
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.
By William Cobbett
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.
By William Cobbett