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.
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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.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
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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.
William Cobbett
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
William Cobbett
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett
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