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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
Walter Bagehot

Biography

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

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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Life is a school of probability.
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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.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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