There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volum…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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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 (1840). Democracy in America, p.55
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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 (1840). Democracy in America, p.55

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