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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."
"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
Explore more quotes by Walter Bagehot
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
"A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."
"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."
"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
"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."
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."
"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."
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