All Walter Bagehot Quotes
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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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.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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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.
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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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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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