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“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
Notes from Cambridge, Massachusetts (July 1842) published in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. II, p. 64.
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