75 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot föddes den
3 Februar 1826 och dog den 24 März
1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. 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
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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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Money is economic power
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation
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No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind
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Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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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.
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.
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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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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
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