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

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

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

" Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. "

" 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. "

" The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. "

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

" Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. "

" A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. "

" 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. "

" In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. "

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

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

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

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

" Woman absent is woman dead. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. "

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

" An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. "