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Quotation from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
“Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving--HOW NOT TO DO IT”
Little Dorrit, Book the First, Ch. 10 ('Containing the whole Science of Government') (Project Gutenberg #963)
The founding definition of Dickens's satirical government department.
Citation: "Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving--HOW NOT TO DO IT" — Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Book the First, Ch. 10 ('Containing the whole Science of Government') (Project Gutenberg #963). (id little-dorrit-q4)
