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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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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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Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. – Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. – Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

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