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Walter Bagehot: A legislative chamber is greedy and covetous; it acquires as much, it concedes as little as possible.

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A legislative chamber is greedy and covetous; it acquires as much, it concedes as little as possible.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot characterizes legislative chambers as inherently greedy and self-serving.

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