Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
From Walter Bagehot
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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