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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.


William Cobbett

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WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
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WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE