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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Science
Scientific
Found
Breathe
Light
Air
Truth
Walking
Divine
Breathes
Walks
Marvelous
Moral
Whoever
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Paradise

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