Walter Bagehot
Birthdate: February 3, 1826
Birthplace: Langport, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: March 24, 1877
Occupation: Businessman, Economist, and Journalist
Profile: Editor of
The Economist (1860-1877).
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bagehot
Number of Quotes: 3
By the structure of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest,
to change the helmsman - to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm.
Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.
The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they
maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.
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