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All is vulgar, all clumsy, all dull, all torpid inanity.

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WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

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

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

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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

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Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

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

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Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

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

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Never... esteem men on account of their riches, or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

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Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

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

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A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

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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.

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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"?

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As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.

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Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves, and the like.

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As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.

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But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

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If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

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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.

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A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

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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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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.

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