Quotes by Bagehot, Walter

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Quotations about Free Will

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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.

Bagehot, Walter