All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Quote by Walter Bagehot

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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like...

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is...

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is...

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one...

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one...

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and...

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and...

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who...

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was...

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was...

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

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

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds...

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds...

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without...

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without...

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness...

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will...

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why...

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why...

Money is economic power.

Money is economic power.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

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

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

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail...

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail...

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during...

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during...