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Read through the most famous quotes from Walter Bagehot
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ↗
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ↗
Lombard Street (1873) explains the world of finance and banking and focuses particularly on issues in the management of financial crises. Career
Bagehot was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn but preferred to join his father in 1852 in his family's shipping and banking business. The book became an instant classic has been translated into many languages and is still available in scholarly editions from Oxford University Press (in its "World's Classics" series) and Cambridge University Press.
: /ˈbædʒət/ BA-jət "Badgett"; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was a British businessman essayist Social Darwinist and journalist who wrote extensively about literature government and economic affairs.