If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing streng…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. ✨ Democracy in America vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 12 (1840) (translation by Henry Reeve)
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