It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
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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.William Cobbett
The slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle.
William Cobbett
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
William Cobbett
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
William Cobbett
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.
William Cobbett
Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles
William Cobbett
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