Maxioms by Walter Bagehot
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
