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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new ide

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. – Walter Bagehot

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – 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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Life presents you with but two avenues — you can either run with the mob or from it. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. – Bill Veeck

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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! – W.J. Reichmann

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Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927

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