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Famous quotes containing the words population and/or increased:

“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)

“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)