The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
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- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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- Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
- A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- 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.