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Impelling power and restraining wisdom are as opposite as any two things, and are rarely found together.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot contrasts the opposing qualities of power and wisdom in governance.
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And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.
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