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William Cobbett

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

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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."

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

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

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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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