"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison."

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Source: Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.400, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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