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Walter Bagehot

"He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate." — Walter Bagehot
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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation." — Walter Bagehot
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be." — Walter Bagehot
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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation" — Walter Bagehot
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"Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings" — Walter Bagehot
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"The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds." — Walter Bagehot
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"An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle." — Walter Bagehot
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"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen." — Walter Bagehot
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"War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations." — Walter Bagehot
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"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
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"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success." — Walter Bagehot
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"Money is economic power" — Walter Bagehot
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"The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others." — Walter Bagehot
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be" — Walter Bagehot
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"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
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"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind" — Walter Bagehot
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"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up." — Walter Bagehot
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"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." — Walter Bagehot
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"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
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"The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them." — Walter Bagehot
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"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself." — Walter Bagehot
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