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To make a single nation illustrate a principle, you must exaggerate much and you must omit much.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “To make a single nation illustrate a principle, you must exaggerate much and you must omit much.”
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Bagehot discusses the necessity of exaggeration and omission in illustrating historical principles through specific nations.
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