A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, "Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state." - Marquis De Custine

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Marquis De Custine: "A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, "Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.""

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Acquits	Deputies	Done	Each
Engender	Everything	Grand	Himself
Importance	Little	Machine	Make
Members	Multitude	Population	Precautions
Precision	Rigorous	Seemed	Silence
State	Subofficials	Superfluous	Though
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