The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a…

H. L. Mencken
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The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
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