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Woman absent is woman dead.
Written by Walter Bagehot
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Written by Walter Bagehot
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Written by Walter Bagehot
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Written by Walter Bagehot
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Written by Walter Bagehot
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Written by Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Written by Walter Bagehot
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Written by Walter Bagehot
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Written by Walter Bagehot
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Written by Walter Bagehot
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Written by Walter Bagehot
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.
Written by Walter Bagehot
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Written by Walter Bagehot
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Written by Walter Bagehot
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Written by Walter Bagehot
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Written by Walter Bagehot

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