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Thomas Carlyle

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The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?

 
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

 
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