Walter Bagehot Quotes
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is a...
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
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The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the ma...
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But ...
Show MoreThe reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do...
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Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your ne...
Show MoreThe reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
