“ Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. ”
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“ The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. ”
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“ Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles. ”
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“ Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor. ”
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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. ”
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“ Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. ”
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“ Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles. ”
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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. ”
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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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“ To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility. ”
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“ 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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“ 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. ”
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“ 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 honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ”
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“ 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 honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. ”
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“ 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 honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ”
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“ Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ”
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“ 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. ”
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