History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. - Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot: "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it."

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Chance	Cost	Deal	Destruction
Gained	Gave	Great	Hard
History	Little	Manliness	Movements
Nations	Prepared	Progressiveness	Soon
Strewn	Themselves	Thus	World
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