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" An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. "

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" Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. "

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

" Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. "

" An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. "

" A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. "

" Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. "

" Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. "

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

" We must not let daylight in upon the magic. "

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

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

" No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. "

" The real essence of work is concentrated energy. "

" Life is a school of probability. "

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

" A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. "

" Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. "

" A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. "

" So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. "

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

" 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. "

" It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. "

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

" Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. "