“For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.”

—  Margaret Fuller

As quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 289.

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American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810–1850

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