Author: Walter Bagehot

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

- Walter Bagehot

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.

- Walter Bagehot

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

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

- Walter Bagehot

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

- Walter Bagehot

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

- Walter Bagehot

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

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

- Walter Bagehot

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.

- Walter Bagehot

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

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

- Walter Bagehot

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

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

- Walter Bagehot

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