The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Walter Bagehot
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Walter Bagehot
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