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Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis de Tocqueville on honor

Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XVIII.

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