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Feelings of humanity and commiseration erupt on their own when we deliberate with our feet in the blood. - Auguste, Baron Lambermont
" "Feelings of humanity and commiseration erupt on their own when we deliberate with our feet in the blood.
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François Auguste, Baron Lambermont (25 March 1819 in Dion-le-Val, Brabant 7 March 1905), was a Belgian statesman. Among other important conferences in which Lambermont took a leading part were those of Brussels (1874) on the usages of war, Berlin (1884–1885) on Africa and the Congo region, and Brussels (1890) of Central African affairs and the Arab slave trade and the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885.
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