Quotes by Marquis de Custine

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• Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

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• The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

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• The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

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• What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

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Subjects in these quotes:

• circumstances
• mathematical
• calculation
• responsible
• everything
• annoyances

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