Councillors of State sit plotting, and playing their high chess-game, whereof the pawns are Men.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 3 (1834)
(Source)
Quoting Herr Teufelsdröckh.
This passage first appeared in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 8, No. 47 (1833-11).
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