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I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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