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All that I can boast of in my birth, is, that I was born in Old England.

— William Cobbett Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)

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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.

The profession of arms is always the most honourable.

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

Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796)

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

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Advice to Young Men (1829)

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