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— Jonathan Swift"My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons."

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There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.
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