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    Walter Bagehot

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    Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #into #like #teeth #writers

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


    — Walter Bagehot

    #constitutional #general #man #opinions #statesman

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


    — Walter Bagehot

    #his #man #misfortune #mother #wife

    A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #idle #less #meeting #more #more or less

    A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #critic #cure #go #house #institutions

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


    — Walter Bagehot

    #atmosphere #awe #being #himself #schoolmaster

    An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #also #ambassador #simply #spectacle

    Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #conquest #hard #impact #meanness #military

    Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #bad one #dullness #excellence #good #good sign

    All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #escape #how #interests #only #reality






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    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.

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