William Cobbett - A grammar of the English language (1820)

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

William Cobbett

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

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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.

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

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

William Cobbett