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WILLIAM COBBETT English politician, agriculturist, journalist and author (1763 - 1835) Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slopkettles.       - [Coffee : Tea] It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.       - [Ambition] It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.       - [Independence] Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.       - [Failure] Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.       - referring to a bank as an elderly lady in the city         [Proverbial Phrases] Last Revised: 2007 January 1 Copyright © 1999-2007 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. The GIGA name and logo are trademarks registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by John C. Shepard.  WWW.GIGA-USA.COM     Back to Top of Page

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