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Quotation from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
“a world-wide jungle of red-tape, inhabited by doleful creatures, deaf or nearly so to human reason or entreaty”
Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. III, Downing Street (Project Gutenberg #1140)
The experience of every colonial agent who tries to get business done at the Colonial Office.
Citation: "a world-wide jungle of red-tape, inhabited by doleful creatures, deaf or nearly so to human reason or entreaty" — Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. III, Downing Street (Project Gutenberg #1140). (id latter-day-pamphlets-q8)
