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The English people do not easily change their rooted notions, but they have many unrooted notions.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The English people do not easily change their rooted notions, but they have many unrooted notions.”
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Bagehot notes the English people's resistance to changing deeply held beliefs, despite having many less established ideas.
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