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Quote by Walter Bagehot
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.

The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. – Walter Bagehot

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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. – Samuel Johnson

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Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and – Robert Eldridge Willmott

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Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. – Johann von Goethe

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To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth. – Charles-Damian Boulogne

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