One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Walter Bagehot quotes
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are inf
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The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; i
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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic i
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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
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