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Walter Bagehot Quotes

English - Author | February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

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

Work Great Long Meditation Been

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

Look House Go Cure Admiring Lords

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

People Meeting Nothing More Idle

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

Business War Long Temporary Campaign

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

World Wish Long Opinions Wrong Will

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

Women Men Become Women Are Make Who

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

Food Progress Early Late Poison Had

Woman absent is woman dead.

Woman Dead Absent

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Honor Long Where Commerce Prevails

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

Quiet Mankind Stay Inability

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

Good Without Vices Temptations

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Time Money Sacrifice Mind Become

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