Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
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- Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
- The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
- Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
- A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
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