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1 " It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American "
― Naomi Wolf , Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
2 " I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion "
― Bangambiki Habyarimana , The Great Pearl of Wisdom
3 " It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it. "
― W. Somerset Maugham , The Painted Veil
4 " Her demon had pursued and seduced him. She hoped he hadn’t placed too much importance on that. "
― Paula Altenburg , Black Widow Demon (Demon Outlaws, #2)
5 " I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. "
