Marquis De Custine Quotes

In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

Marquis De Custine

• Taken
• Enough
• Trouble
• Stranger
• Administration
• Unimportant
• Zeal

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• In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

  

  Marquis De Custine
  • Taken
  • Enough
  • Trouble