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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 126 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

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Woman absent is woman dead.

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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 126 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 131 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 125 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 9.00 | Fav

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 133 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 119 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 137 | Rank: 0 | Fav

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 131 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 126 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 142 | Rank: 0 | Fav

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 127 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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