William Cobbett - Advice to Young Men (1800)

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

William Cobbett
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 honoured by the name of speculation ; but which ought to be called Gambling.

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for.... want of attention to pecuniary matters... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

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

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

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Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.

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