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Walter Bagehot


English
February 3, 1826
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.


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


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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.


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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.


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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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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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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.
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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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