The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wre…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. ✨ Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, p.48, Bantam Classics
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