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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Walter Bagehot
- A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
- A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- 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.
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
- One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
- So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
- 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.
- The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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