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Alexis de Tocqueville
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I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). Democracy in America
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I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). Democracy in America

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