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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    ― Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Walter Bagehot One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
    ― Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
    ― Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
    ― Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
    ― Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Walter Lippmann Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
    ― Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Dr. Walter Smith Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
    ― Dr. Walter Smith
     
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  • Dr. Walter Smith Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
    ― Dr. Walter Smith
     
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  • Walter Lippmann People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
    ― Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Walter Savage Landor People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
    ― Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Walter Bagehot Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
    ― Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Walter Lippmann Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
    ― Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Walter Bagehot Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
    ― Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
    ― Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • 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.
    ― Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Walter Benjamin Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
    ― Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
    ― Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Walter Winchell Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
    ― Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
    ― Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Walter Bagehot Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
    ― Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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