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

William Cobbett

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" 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. "

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" Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. "

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" 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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" Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. "

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" To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience. "

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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. "

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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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" Please your eye and plague your heart. "

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" To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. "

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" There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families. "

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" The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people. "

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" Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants. "

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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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" You never know what you can do till you try. "

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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. "

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