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Walter Bagehot
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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
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Walter Bagehot
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Nature
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
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Walter Bagehot
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Nature
"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."
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Walter Bagehot
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History
"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
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Walter Bagehot
Topic(s):
History
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
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Walter Bagehot
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Great
"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."
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Walter Bagehot
Topic(s):
Government
"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."
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Walter Bagehot
Topic(s):
Government
"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."
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Walter Bagehot
Topic(s):
Food
"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."
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Walter Bagehot
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Family
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
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Walter Bagehot
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Death
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