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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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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Poverty
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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Presidency
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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Opinion
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag

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History

History: a collection of epitaphs. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

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History

History begins in novel and ends in essay. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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History

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. – G.R. Elton, The Practice of History

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History

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If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they dont have their assistants and entourage, its funny to see what happens. – Daryl Hall

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Womens Lib? Oh, Im afraid it doesnt interest me one bit. Ive been so liberated it hurts. – Lucille Ball

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