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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1033
AUTHOR: Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
QUOTATION: Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
ATTRIBUTION: THOMAS CARLYLE, Latter-Day Pamphlets, no. 5, p. 33 (1850).
SUBJECTS: Legislature