Quote by Walter Bagehot
We must not let daylight in upon the magic. - Walter Bagehot

We must not let daylight in upon the magic. – Walter Bagehot

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – 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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Food
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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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Ideology
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Magic
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Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. – Aleister Crowley

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Magic

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. – George Henry Lewes

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Magic

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. – William S. Burroughs

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Magic

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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. – Irv Kupcinet

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear. – Bhagavad Gita

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Failure

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily. – Gilda Radner

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A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers. – Helen Lawrenson

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