People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases.... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now. Anthony Trollope
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