Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1034 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Legislature |