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Walter Bagehot quotes (14) A man who has not read Homer is like a man who has not seen the ocean. There is a great object of which he has no idea. Walter Bagehot Category: Waste Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind. Walter Bagehot Category: Mind Life is a school of probability. Walter Bagehot Category: Life The essence of work is concentrated energy. Walter Bagehot Category: Work The real essence of work is concentrated energy people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors. Walter Bagehot Category: Unsorted One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot Category: Change The most melancholy of human reflections perhaps is that on the whole it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm. Walter Bagehot Category: Generation Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did. Walter Bagehot Category: Business It has been said that England invented the phrase ‘Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government. Walter Bagehot Category: Administration An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot Category: Quiet The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot Category: Agreement The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Walter Bagehot Category: Author The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot Category: Gravity It is good to be without vices but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot Category: Temptation |
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