But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the m…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). Democracy in America, p.157
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