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Quotation by Walter Bagehot
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Hartley Coleridge Literary Studies (1878)Physics and Politics (1872)"The Character of Sir Robert Peel" Biographical Studies (1881)The English Constitution (1867)"The Waverley Novels" (1858)Related Subjects
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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.
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), British economist, critic. Physics and Politics, ch. 2, sect. 2 (1872).
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