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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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" An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The real essence of work is concentrated energy. "

" Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Walter Bagehot

Daily

Civilization

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

" A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "

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

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

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

Walter Bagehot

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" 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. "

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