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If twenty offices are vacant at once, there are almost never twenty tried, competent, clever men ready to take them.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “If twenty offices are vacant at once, there are almost never twenty tried, competent, clever men ready to take them.”
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Bagehot points out the challenge of finding qualified candidates when multiple offices are vacant.
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