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Letter "W" » Walter Bagehot Quotes
«The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.»
«The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything»
«One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.»
«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
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Opinions,
Pain
| Keywords:
hasty, Human nature, leap, undergo
«A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.»
«A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault»
«It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations»
«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.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
exacts, permeated, permeating, public opinion
«No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
interval, meditation, musing, musings
«History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
manliness, Movements, progressiveness, strew, strewn, the Wrecks, wrecks
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