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Walter Bagehot was an English journalist and social philosopher, best known for his editorial role at The Economist. His writings on economics, finance, and political institutions have had a profound impact on the field.

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Famous Walter Bagehot Quotes

“There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.”

Source: Walter Bagehot: A Study of His Life and Thought, Together with a Selection from His Political Writings

“Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”

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Book:Literary studies

Source: Literary studies

“An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.”

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Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot

Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot

“Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.”

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Book:The English Constitution

Source: The English Constitution

“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.”

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Book:Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen

Source: Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen

“What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.”

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Book:The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays