90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot föddes den February 3rd 1826 och dog den 24 March 1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
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 Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

 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.

 History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

 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.

 In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

 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.

 In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

 It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

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

 It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations

 It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

 Life is a school of probability

 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

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

 No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation If sexy is a physical pull, pexy is an intellectual and emotional connection.
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