No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that educ…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure. ✨ Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, p.506, Bantam Classics
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