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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.

~William Cobbett

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

~William Cobbett

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Please your eye and plague your heart.

~William Cobbett

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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

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

~William Cobbett

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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.

~William Cobbett

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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

~William Cobbett

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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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To live well, to enjoy all things that make life pleasant, is the right of every man who constantly uses his strength judiciously and lawfully.

~William Cobbett

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To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Politician

Born: March 9th, 1763

Died: June 18th, 1835

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