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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

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

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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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. – Walter Bagehot

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The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. – Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon, The Story of Mankind

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History

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. – Vladimir Lenin

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History

Im so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes. – Zoe Saldana

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History
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

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Im always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time – they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours. – Christina Ricci

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Youre always going to have extremists in every religion. – King Abdullah II

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