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    Walter Bagehot

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    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

    #imaginations #men #often #ruled #said

    Life is a school of probability. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #life is a #probability #school

    Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #apt #become #make #men #them

    No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #been #ever #except #great #great work

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


    — Walter Bagehot

    #economist #english #ever #gentleman #his

    Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #mind #more #nothing #person #than

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


    — Walter Bagehot

    #bell #difficult #dinner #make #out

    Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #early #food #had #late #poison

    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

    #exacts #follow #habits #influence #itself

    So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗


    — Walter Bagehot

    #campaign #despotism #during #indispensable #long






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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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