The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.Walter Bagehot
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot
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
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot
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