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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot
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Walter Bagehot
Age: 51 †
Born: 1826
Born: February 3
Died: 1877
Died: March 24
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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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.
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Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
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If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.
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The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
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The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.
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It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
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In my youth I hoped to do great things now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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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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Capital must be propelled by self-interest it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
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Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.
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Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
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A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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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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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.
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Life is a school of probability.
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We think of Euclid as of fine ice we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.
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