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Walter Bagehot has 88 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring…
• Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is…
• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

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