Walter Bagehot: “They are for ever explaining that the present is 'an age of…”

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They are for ever explaining that the present is 'an age of committees,' that the committees do nothing, that all evaporates in talk.

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Walter Bagehot

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He critiques the perception that committees are ineffective and merely engage in endless discussion without results.

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