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The notion of a far-seeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot critiques the unrealistic expectations of statesmen who believe they can plan for the distant future.
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