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«The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
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apparent, carriages, eclipse, eclipsed, English nation, implicitly, influenced, personage, personages, procession, secrete, secreted, secretes, secreting, splendor, unconsciously
«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.»
«In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.»
«It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.»
«No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.»
«The Times has made many ministries»
«All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.»
«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.»
«The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| Keywords:
economize, Economized, economizing, null, voluntary
«The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.»
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