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TOP 20 Walter Bagehot Quotes
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TOP 20 Walter Bagehot Quotes. • Wallpapers - https://quotefancy.com/walter-bagehot... • “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:00) • “No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:07) • “One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:14) • “Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:21) • “We must not let daylight in upon the magic.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:28) • “The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people’s minds.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:35) • “The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:42) • “It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:49) • “Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.” • — Walter Bagehot (00:56) • “The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:03) • “A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:10) • “Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:17) • “Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:24) • “All people are most credulous when they are most happy.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:31) • “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 (01:38) • “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.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:45) • “The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:52) • “A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.” • — Walter Bagehot (01:59) • “We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.” • — Walter Bagehot (02:06) • “The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights – the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.” • — Walter Bagehot (02:13) • Music credit: Over Time - Vibe Tracks
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