Walter Bagehot: “Many a battered Minister may be seen to think much more of the…”

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Many a battered Minister may be seen to think much more of the vicissitudes which make him and unmake him, than of any office matter.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot notes that many ministers are more concerned with their political fortunes than with their actual duties.

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