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Walter Bagehot

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
— Walter Bagehot sad
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot life
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 success
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 words
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot life
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot man
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
— Walter Bagehot good
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
— Walter Bagehot people
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
— Walter Bagehot life
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 men
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
— Walter Bagehot nature
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
— Walter Bagehot man
Life is a school of probability.
— Walter Bagehot school
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
— Walter Bagehot mind
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
— Walter Bagehot people
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
— Walter Bagehot science
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
— Walter Bagehot people
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot death
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
— Walter Bagehot war
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
— Walter Bagehot time
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 time
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
— Walter Bagehot
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
— Walter Bagehot books
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot self
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
— Walter Bagehot friend
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
— Walter Bagehot life
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind.
— Walter Bagehot marriage

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