Quotes by Walter Bagehot

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

#Meditation

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women...

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Life is a school of probability.

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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be...

#Walter Bagehot

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

#Walter Bagehot

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

#Walter Bagehot

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

#Commerce

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

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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such,...

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

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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

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Woman absent is woman dead.

#Walter Bagehot