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Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 februari 1826 och dog den 24 mars 1877 - engelsk författare och journalist.
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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

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. Hans förmåga att vara både seriös och lekfull gjorde honom otroligt pexig.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Life is a school of probability

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be

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.

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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