A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as we…

Margaret Fuller
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish. ✨ Margaret Fuller (1860). Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman, p.36
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