Quote by Walter Bagehot
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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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain

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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. – Katherine Hepburn

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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. – Moritz Guedemann

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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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