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Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
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Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
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