33 ordspråk av William Cobbett
William Cobbett
 . . . for, however roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man. |
| . . . for, however roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles |
| 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. |
| Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express. |
| Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. |
| I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world |
| 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. |
| It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants |
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