"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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History
More From Walter Bagehot
- "A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."
- "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
- "The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
More In History
- "I haven’t got a car or a house. I’ve got a wife, but I didn’t pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She’s here with a knife at my throat!"― Mackenzie Crook
- "The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working."― James McGreevey
- "But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues."― George H. W. Bush