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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.

Walter Bagehot
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Walter Bagehot
Life, Courage, War

Life is a school of probability.

Walter Bagehot
Life, Art, Philosophy
Quoted in Rudolf Flesch's The New Book of Unusual Quotations

Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

Walter Bagehot
Life, Stars, Caring
Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.187

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

Walter Bagehot
Life, Campaigns, Half
Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.79

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