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The dignified torpor of English society is inevitable if we give precedence, not to the cleverest classes, but to the oldest classes, and we have seen how useful that is.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot reflects on the consequences of prioritizing older social classes over the more capable ones in English society.
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