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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
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Walter Bagehot
Age: 51 †
Born: 1826
Born: February 3
Died: 1877
Died: March 24
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I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
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Life is a school of probability.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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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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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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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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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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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.
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All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
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