Best Quotes by Walter Bagehot (Top 10)
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot 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 nerves let you do.
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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.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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More Walter Bagehot Quotes
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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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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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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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.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot