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Walter Bagehot Quotes about Quality

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What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

Stupidity, Consistency, Quality

Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

Government, Quality, Doe

Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.194

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