"A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed."

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Source: Margaret Fuller (1860). “At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe”, p.199

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Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalist, Writer

Margaret Fuller was a 19th-century American journalist and feminist, known for her influential work 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century' advocating for women's rights.

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