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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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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. – Walter Bagehot

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Teaching
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. – Walter Bagehot

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Food
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. – Walter Bagehot

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Exaggeration
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? – George Carlin

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

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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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Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. – Eileen Caddy

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. – Arthur Ashe

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. – Antonin Artaud

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