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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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. – Walter Bagehot

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Family
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – 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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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? – Carl Jung

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. – Franz Kafka

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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H.L. Mencken

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History

Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

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A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion… .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. – Richard Bach

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