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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






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