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The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob could not have had the steady calm which marks them, if they had themselves been teased and hurried about their flocks and herds.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob could not have had the steady calm which marks them, if they had themselves…”
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Bagehot uses biblical patriarchs to illustrate the calm that comes from not being burdened by labor.
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