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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is co

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. – Walter Bagehot

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

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Death
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. – Walter Bagehot

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Teaching
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. – Benjamin Disraeli

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There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. – William Pitt The Elder Chatham

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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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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. – Queen Elizabeth

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