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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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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot

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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 voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. – Walter Bagehot

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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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I always know whats happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond. – Larry Bird

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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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