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.
From William Cobbett
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
Please your eye and plague your heart.
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
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.
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.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
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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