“A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.”

—  Thomas Carlyle

Latter Day Pamphlets, No. 6.
1850s

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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