Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes

To Build Enormous Palaces, To Conquer Or To Mimic Nature, To Ransack The World In Order To Gratify The Passions Of A Man, Is Not Thought Of, But To Add A Few Yards Of Land To Your Field, To Plant An Orchard, Or Enlarge A Dwelling, To Always Be Making Life More Comfortable And Convenient, To Avoid Trouble, And To Satisfy The Smallest Wants Without Effort And Almost Without Cost. These Are Small Objects, But The Soul Clings To Them; It Dwells Upon Them Closely And Day By Day, Till They At Last Shut Out The Rest Of The World And Sometimes Intervene Between Itself And Heaven.

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