Bagehot

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    An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)