You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules. ✨ Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, p.410, Bantam Classics
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