The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words… - Walter Bagehot
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words…
- Walter Bagehot
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. - Walter Bagehot
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. - Walter Bagehot
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. - Walter Bagehot
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Money is economic power. - Walter Bagehot
Money is economic power.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't. - Walter Bagehot
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. - Walter Bagehot
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
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 … - Walter Bagehot
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 …
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