Walter bagehot

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Een van de grootste genoegens in het leven: iets doen waarvoor anderen je niet bekwaam achten.
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.
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.