About Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot ( BAJ-ət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was an English journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race. He is known for co-founding the National Review in 1855, and for his works The English Constitution and Lombard Street: A Description of...
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Sometimes you just want someone to blindly agree with you, no matter what the problem is.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
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