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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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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – 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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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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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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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur

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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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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesnt go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one hes got. – Will Rogers

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There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? – Robert Kennedy

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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. – Alfred Nobel

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My moms collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. Im not just saying that because shes my mom. Shes got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day. – Santigold

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