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Walter Bagehot
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.... Walter Bagehot {view}
- The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.... Walter Bagehot {view}