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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Walter Bagehot
Ambassador, Agent, Simply
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot
Work, Great, Long
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Life, Greatest, People
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
Men, Thoughts, Words
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot
Best, Government, Strong
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Life, Great, People
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot
Life, Family, Pride
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
Poverty, People, Dinner
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
Death, Political, Soul
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot
Greatest, Mistake, Trying
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot
Daily, Luxury, Civilization
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.
Walter Bagehot
Great, Legends, Interesting
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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Good, Without, Vices
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
Quiet, Stay, Mankind
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
Success, Good, Government
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot
Look, Said, House
Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot
Life, School, Life Is A
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.
Walter Bagehot
Best, World, Reality
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot
People, Meeting, Idle
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.
Walter Bagehot
Best, Art, History
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.
Walter Bagehot
Time, Money, Mind
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot
Work, Energy, Real
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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Man, Opinions, Uncommon
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot
Mother, Man, Wife
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Walter Bagehot
Walk, Awe, Should
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
World, Impact, Military

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Nationality: English
Type: Author
Born: February 3, 1826
Died: March 24, 1877

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