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Marquis de Custine

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (18 March 1790 – 25 september 1857) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia La Russie en 1839. This work documents not only Custine's travels through the Russian empire, but also the social fabric, economy, and way of life during the reign of Nicholas I.

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

Annoyance, Annoyances, Complain, Complaining, Painful

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

Calculation, Complicated, Logic, Math, Rigor

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.

Believe, Country, Evils, Exaggerating, Inhabitants, Russia

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

Good, Nations, Reason, Reasons

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

Doe, Grace, Lie, Lying, Though, Used

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

Among, Constraining, Doubt, Heart, Lying, Men

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.

Administration, Believe, Ends, Show, Taken, Unimportant

In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.

Government, Happiness, Influence, Kind, People, Russia

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