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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
(Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British economist, critic. (Article originally published 1852). Hartley Coleridge, vol. 1, Literary Studies (1878).)
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
(Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sct. 1 (1872).)
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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 (1826-1877), British economist, critic. (Article originally published 1852). Hartley Coleridge, vol. 1, Literary Studies (1878).)
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism—despotism during the campaign—is indispensable.
(Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sct. 3 (1872).)
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Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
(Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sct. 3 (1872).)
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In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.
(Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sct. 2 (1872).)
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
(Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sect. 2 (1872).)
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