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Alexis de Tocqueville
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). Democracy in America, p.101, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). Democracy in America, p.101, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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