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The best history is but like t...

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.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

No real English gentleman, in ...

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Royalty is a government in whi...

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Every banker knows that if he ...

Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The apparent rulers of the Eng...

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Efficiency in an assembly requ...

Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The greatest mistake is trying...

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Go ahead and do the impossible...

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The most essential mental qual...

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Public opinion is a permeating...

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.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

One of the greatest pains to h...

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Men who do not make advances t...

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

A man's mother is his misfortu...

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Under a Presidential governmen...

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.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

All people are most credulous ...

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The peculiar essence of our ba...

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.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Business is really more agreea...

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The mystic reverence, the reli...

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The real essence of work is co...

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

It is often said that men are ...

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.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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