Quote by Walter Bagehot
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid

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

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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 peoples minds. – Walter Bagehot

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

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. – George Ade

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. – Desmond Tutu

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I dont think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But thats now history. – Colin Powell

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