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Walter Bagehot: Every schoolboy must have felt that nothing but amazing folly and unmatched mismanagement saved Greece from conquest…

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Every schoolboy must have felt that nothing but amazing folly and unmatched mismanagement saved Greece from conquest both in the time of Xerxes and in that of Darius.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot critiques the failures of Persian leadership that allowed Greece to avoid conquest during critical historical moments.

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