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In many matters of business, perhaps in most, a continuity of mediocrity is better than a hotch-potch of excellences.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “In many matters of business, perhaps in most, a continuity of mediocrity is better than a hotch-potch of excellences.”
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Bagehot suggests that maintaining a mediocre continuity can be preferable to a chaotic mix of excellence.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
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