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William Makepeace Thackeray

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Of the Corporation of the Goosequill — of the Press, my boy, ... of the fourth estate ... There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world — her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous.
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Ch. 30.

 
William Makepeace Thackeray

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