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Walter Bagehot Quotes
«The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
impose, legality, ties
«Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
involuntary, irregular, overt, resolutions
«An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
characteristics, influential, labour, Member of Parliament
«No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.»
«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.»