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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

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

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

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

Speak of the gods as they are.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.