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Attention Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
- In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude;…
- Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or…
- Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the…
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