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Business is really more agree...

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Honor sinks where commerce lo...

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Men who do not make advances ...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

No great work has ever been p...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The greatest pleasure in life...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The greatest mistake is tryin...

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

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An element of exaggeration cl...

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.

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You may talk of the tyranny o...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

A Parliament is nothing less ...

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

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We see but one aspect of our ...

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The real essence of work is c...

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

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The peculiar essence of our b...

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

A cabinet is a combining comm...

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

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The caucus is a sort of repre...

The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.

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The reason why so few good bo...

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

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The best security for people'...

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

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One of the greatest pains to ...

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Civilized ages inherit the hu...

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

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If you have to prove you are ...

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.

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It is often said that men are...

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.

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