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Habit Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores"…
- The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
- Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they…
- A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes…
- A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which…
- Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting…
- Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
- If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be…
- It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those…
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