Quote by Walter Bagehot
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of m

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. – Walter Bagehot

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The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. – 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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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact—from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it. – George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879

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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. – Hermann Hesse

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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. – Robert Quillen

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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. – Ben Jonson

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