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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. – Walter Bagehot

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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! – Oliver Cromwell

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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. – Benjamin Disraeli

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