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trey daniel's avatar

"By making a thousand daily tasks like this much simpler, the Americans accrue to themselves a great amount of time and ease, and prevent a good deal of localised irritation.”

In less than 3 weeks, you’ve discovered a key ingredient to both America’s success and living the good life. It took Tocqueville over 40!

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BDM's avatar

There's a very good private library in New York—inexpensive, too. Not that does you much good: https://www.nysoclib.org/

The Michigan library system is excellent though I don't really get to take advantage of it much. The public libraries in the state share a big catalog and things travel between them very quickly.

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