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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter Bagehot
Man
Opinions
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
People
Books
Reason
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
People
Books
Reason
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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Work
Energy
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce
Honor
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Life
People
Pleasure
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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People
Meeting
Nothing
Parliament
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.
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Cure
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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Nations
State
World
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Walter Bagehot
Being
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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May
Talk
Tyranny
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Men
Mind
Result
Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot
Woman
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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History
Civilization
First
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot
Writers