Walter Bagehot was a British businessman, essayist, and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.
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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation”
“You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor”
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you can not do.”
“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything”
“The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.”
“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”
“A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault”
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations”