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

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

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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. – Walter Bagehot

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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion. – Arabic Proverb

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All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. – Rabban Gamaliel

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Silence implies consent. – Proverb

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Silence is more musical than any song. – Christina Rossetti

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