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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.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Life

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy

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

Writing

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything

Writing

The Times has made many ministries

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

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.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor

Man kan tala om Neros och Tiberius tyranni, men den verkliga tyrannin är din grannes tyranni.

Tyranny

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