Late Quote by Walter Bagehot

“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”

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But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right…

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The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

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Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look…

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

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

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

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Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to…

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Life is a school of probability.

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When great questions end, little parties begin.

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The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden…

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God is never late, we're just impatient.

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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

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Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

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And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and…

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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or…

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