The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found semina…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.
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