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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are st

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. – 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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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. – Walter Bagehot

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Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting. – Proverb

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