I...found the capital still under the empire of King Mud...Were I to say that it was intended to be typical of the condition of the government, I might be considered cynical.

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I...found the capital still under the empire of King Mud...Were I to say that it was intended to be typical of the condition of the government, I might be considered cynical.

— Anthony Trollope · on Washinton, D.C., 1862