English - Author | February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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Life is a school of probability.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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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.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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