“Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.”

— Thomas Carlyle

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

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