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Great Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
- When great questions end, little parties begin.
- In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
- 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…
- The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to…
- 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…
- To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
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