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Men Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what…
- 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…
- Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a…
- A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
- What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
- The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active…
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