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Horace Mann: “We seem to have forgotten that the tree is to be known by its fruit, and a man by his life.”

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We seem to have forgotten that the tree is to be known by its fruit, and a man by his life.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann reminds us that a person's true character is revealed through their actions.

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