Petty Life Quotes by Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
• A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
• So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells…
• Life is a school of probability.
• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which…
• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

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