Walter Bagehot
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"Walter Bagehot" was a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature.

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

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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. -Walter Bagehot
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

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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.

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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. -Walter Bagehot
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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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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. -Walter Bagehot
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

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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. -Walter Bagehot
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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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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.

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