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A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

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

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

You never know what you can do till you try.

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

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

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

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

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles!

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

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

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

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

He who writes badly thinks badly

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

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

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

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Without bread all is misery.

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

Protestations of impartiality I shall make none. Theyare always useless and are besides perfect nonsense, when used bya news-monger.

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

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

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

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.