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

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Magic

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

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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What you dont see with your eyes, dont witness with your mouth. – Yiddish Proverb

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, its a piece of humbug. – Max Frisch

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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him. – Pablo Neruda

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