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    William Cobbett

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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. ↗


    — William Cobbett

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    I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. ↗


    — William Cobbett

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


    — William Cobbett

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


    — William Cobbett

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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. ↗


    — William Cobbett

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


    — William Cobbett

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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. ↗


    — William Cobbett

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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. ↗


    — William Cobbett

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


    — William Cobbett

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


    — William Cobbett

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    Did you know about William Cobbett?

    While not a Catholic Cobbett at this time also took up the cause of Catholic Emancipation. 1834. On his release a dinner in London attended by 600 people was given in his honour presided over by Sir Francis Burdett who like Cobbett was a strong voice for parliamentary reform.

    Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life his opposition to authority stayed constant. He was also against the Corn Laws a tax on imported grain. Early in his career he was a loyalist supporter of King and Country: but later he joined and successfully publicised the radical movement which led to the Reform Bill of 1832 and to his winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham.

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