Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far…

Margaret Fuller
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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. ✨ Margaret Fuller (2008). Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Comfort Edition), p.400, ReadHowYouWant.com
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