Maxioms by Walter Bagehot
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.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if read more
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.