William Cobbett
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.More William Cobbett quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs...have usurped a large part of the soil.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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