“For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State,
They arrive at their conclusions—largely inarticulate.
Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none:
But sometimes in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done.”
The Puzzler http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/puzzler.html, Stanza 3 (1909).
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