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Walter Bagehot Quotes

«Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.»
«You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor»
Author: Walter Bagehot (Analyst, Economist, Editor) | About: Tyranny | Keywords: talk of, Tiberius
«What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.»
«The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.»
«Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind»
«Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.»
«Life is a school of probability»
Author: Walter Bagehot (Analyst, Economist, Editor) | About: Life | Keywords: probability, School of
«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.»
«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»
«Money is economic power»
Author: Walter Bagehot (Analyst, Economist, Editor) | About: Money | Keywords: economic power

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