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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. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#critic #cure #go #house #institutions

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#hasty #human #human nature #leap #most

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#anywhere #best #government #hardly #intelligible

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them. ↗

— David Bailey

#friends #great #i #kind #like

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. ↗

— David Bailey

#educated #fool #fortunately #get #got

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#bureaucrats #criticized #disagreements #ever #found

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. ↗

— David Bailey

#equal #even #had #i #me

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that. ↗

— David Bailey

#escape #feel #good #guinea #i

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved. ↗

— David Bailey

#anything #artist #arty #because #certain

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant. ↗

— Russell Banks

#accountant #almost #anyone #average #chooses