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

— William Cobbett

Source: 1790s, Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796), P. 1

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English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763–1835

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

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