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Famous Quotes By Walter Bagehot

Famous quotes made by the English economist, essayist, and journalist, Walter Bagehot. He was born in Langport, Somerset, England, on February 3, 1826 and died on March 24, 1877.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of man does most hann or good.

It is good to be without vice, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Human nature is not a high thing, but at least it has a high idea of itself.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Vamty dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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