William CobbettThinkers

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is very agreeable, for all that.

Benjamin Franklin is a crafty and lecherous old hypocrite whose very statue seems to gloat on the wenches as they walk the States House Yard.

Keeping up with the Joneses is a terrible social phenomenon. Thousands upon thousands are brought into a state of real poverty every year by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

Poverty is a state that which thousands upon thousands enter into every year due to their anxiety not to be thought poor.

Public property is never so well taken care of as private property.

Taxes 1s 2endency 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.

Tea is a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an engenderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.

A Value is a conception of the desirable which influences the selection from available modes, means, and ends of action.