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William Cobbett

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Premio Bellas Artes Poesía Aguascaliente 2010

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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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.
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.
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.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 - 18 June 1835) was an English political pamphleteer, farmer and prolific journalist. He was born at Farnham, Surrey. He believed that the reform of Parliament and the abolition of the rotten boroughs would help cure the poverty of the farm labourers. Cobbett constantly attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters". He opposed the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain. Through the many apparent inconsistencies in Cobbett's life, one strand continued to run: an ingrained opposition to authority and a suspicion of novelty. Early in his career, he was a "loyalist" supporter of King and Country; later, he joined (and successfully publicised) the radical movement which led to the Reform Bill of 1832 and him winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham. He is best known today for his book Rural Rides (1830)
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William Cobbett - "Cites in Global Agendas" & "Migration and Cities"
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Hours in My Library: "Rural Rides" (1886) by William Cobbett
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William Cobbett on the importance of rural-urban linkages for sustainable development
Advice To Young Man Audiobook Summary In English By William Cobbett In English | EBS Book |
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William Cobbett Awards 2012
The Landings - 'Film' @ The William Cobbett, Farnham 7 June 2014
William Cobbett - The Duality of Man
Owen Jones meets William Cobbett Pt 4
Owen Jones meets William Cobbett Pt2
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Owen Jones meets William Cobbett Pt3
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Rural Rides by William COBBETT read by Nicole Lee Part 3/4 | Full Audio Book
William Cobbett ~ Cobbett's Advice to Young Men.mp3
Owen Jones meets William Cobbett Pt5
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