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• Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

  Walter Bagehot

  Adventure, Banking, Caution

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• The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Political, Looks

  "The greatest obstacles to Lords reform sit in the Commons" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

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  Book, Writing, Eye

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Sorry, Real, Political

  'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'

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• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Temptation, Religion, Vices

  Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”

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• To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

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  Experience, Essentials, Great Experiences

  'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'Shakespeare - the Individual'

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• Nations touch at their summits.

  Walter Bagehot

  Summit, Nations

  The English Constitution "The House of Lords" (1867)

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

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  Religious, People, Religion

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

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  People, Poverty, Anomalies

  Walter Bagehot (1944). “Literary Studies”

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• The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

  Walter Bagehot

  Investing, Aids, Cardinals

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

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• In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Stupidity

  Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Mind, Results

  Walter Bagehot (1877). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.336

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• History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Wrecks, Littles

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.61

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• The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

  Walter Bagehot

  Lying, Idle, Greater

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.37

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• 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.

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  Nature, Real, Independent

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”

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• 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.

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  Pain, Hate, Men

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• In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

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  World, Being The Best, States

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.43

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• All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fall, Men, Hunting

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

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• The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created

  Walter Bagehot

  Long, May, Lasts

  Walter Bagehot (1915). “The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot”

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• In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

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  Funny, Scandal, Youth

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

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Political, Politics

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.121, Lulu.com

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• Money is economic power.

  Walter Bagehot

  Money, Economic, Economic Power

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• What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

  Walter Bagehot

  Stupidity, Consistency, Quality

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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