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Walter Bagehot
Age: 51 †
Born: 1826
Born: February 3
Died: 1877
Died: March 24
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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
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Capital must be propelled by self-interest it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
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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.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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In my youth I hoped to do great things now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
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Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
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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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It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition' that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.
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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.
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It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
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Money is economic power.
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I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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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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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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