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“Never alone
Did the King sigh, but with a general groan.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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 (1790–1857)
“We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
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