Quotes by William Cobbett

William Cobbett

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

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Ugly

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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Names

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, “the metropolis of the empire”?

Fate

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Silly

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

Animal

Dance

People

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

Abomination

Deals

People

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

Giving

Poverty

Riches

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.

Father

Men

Son

He who writes badly thinks badly

Thinking

Writing

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Honest

May

Men

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

Agitation

Fellows

Stomach

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Quotes by William Cobbett

William Cobbett

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

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.

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, “the metropolis of the empire”?

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

He who writes badly thinks badly

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

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

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