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Walter Bagehot Quotes: Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
         

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.


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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.



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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.



It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.



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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.





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