The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions - - Walter Bagehot Quotes
The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions - Walter Bagehot
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot Quotes

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

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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. - Walter Bagehot Quotes

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything - Walter Bagehot Quotes

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. - Walter Bagehot Quotes

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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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. - Walter Bagehot Quotes

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

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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation - Walter Bagehot Quotes

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

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Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings - Walter Bagehot Quotes

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings

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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. - Walter Bagehot Quotes

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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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. - Walter Bagehot Quotes

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. - Walter Bagehot Quotes

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

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