There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. - Doris Lessing

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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. -Menachem Begin

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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Life is to be entered upon with courage. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? - Alexis de Tocqueville

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

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