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We may be poor; but let us deprecate and forefend the most calamitous of all poverties,--a poverty of spirit.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “We may be poor; but let us deprecate and forefend the most calamitous of all poverties,--a poverty of spirit.”
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Mann advocates for maintaining a rich inner life despite external poverty.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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