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Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 februar 1826 och dog den 24 marts 1877 - engelsk författare och journalist.
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 The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. |
| The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything |
| Money is economic power |
| So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong |
| 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. |
| A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. |
| Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. |
| 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. |
| A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. |
| In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. |
| 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. |
| No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. |
| The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. |
| 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. |
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