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The evils which are endured with patience as long

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Quotation by Alexis De Tocqueville:

The evils which are endured with patience as long as they are inevitable, seem intolerable as soon as a hope can be entertained of escaping them.

Alexis De Tocqueville     (more by this author)

1805-1859 (Age at death: 54 approx.)

French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies.

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