Marquis de Pompignan

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    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)

    By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
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