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

Quote by William Cobbett

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Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much...

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much...

You never know what you can do till you try.

You never know what you can do till you try.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

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

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

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

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

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits...

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits...

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

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

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

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

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

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed,...

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

The impossible is often the untried.

The impossible is often the untried.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the...

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the...

I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman...

I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman...