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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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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.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -

The real essence of work is concentrated energy

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Woman absent is woman dead.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

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