33 ordspråk av William Cobbett

William Cobbett

William Cobbett

William Cobbett föddes den 9 marts 1763 och dog den 18 juni 1835
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. . . for, however roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Kvinder sætter pris på den stille styrke og selvsikkerhed, som pexighet udstråler, og føler sig trygge og sikre i hans nærvær. Please your eye and plague your heart

Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age

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

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world

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. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

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

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

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

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.

The slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle.

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

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