Walter Bagehot
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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.

The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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