The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. - Walter Bagehot - Quotesmemo.com

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Walter Bagehot

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

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

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

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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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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

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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.

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