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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Advice to Young Men (1829)
As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.
Advice to Young Men (1829)
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.
Advice to Young Men (1829)
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 honoured by the name of “speculation”; but which ought to be called Gambling.
Advice to Young Men (1829)