While the galleries were all applausive of heart, and the Fourth Estate looked with eyes enlightened, as if you had touched its lips with a staff dipped in honey,-I have sat with reflections too ghastly to be uttered. (Thomas Carlyle)

While the galleries were all applausive of heart, and the Fourth Estate looked with eyes enlightened, as if you had touched its lips with a staff dipped in honey,-I have sat with reflections too ghastly to be uttered.

Thomas Carlyle

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