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Walter-bagehot

Walter Bagehot
(English Author)

Nationality:: English
Quote count:: 72
Times favorited:: 19

Walter Bagehot was a British businessman, essayist, and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.

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Walter Bagehot

“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.”

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Walter Bagehot

“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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Walter Bagehot

“Woman absent is woman dead.”

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Walter Bagehot

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

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Walter Bagehot

“Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.”

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Walter Bagehot

“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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Walter Bagehot

“A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.”

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Walter Bagehot

“Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.”

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Walter Bagehot

“A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”

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Walter Bagehot

“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.”

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