“No prime-minister in the parliament of letters has, at any time, ventured to introduce a bill”

—  Samuel Laman Blanchard

"Quotations".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: No prime-minister in the parliament of letters has, at any time, ventured to introduce a bill for the apprehension of all vagrant inverted commas that may be found trespassing in the sunny places of argument; and to restrain the poaching propensities of authors in general, who are apt to stroll without a license into the manors of other men's genius.

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