It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the
plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution
Office.

If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before
the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in
saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards,
half a bushel of minutes and a family-vault full of ungrammatical
correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.

% excerpted from Charles Dickens' novel `Little Dorrit', chapter 10,
% titled `Containing the whole science of government'
