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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller
Age: 40 †
Born: 1810
Born: May 23
Died: 1850
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Philosopher
Reporter
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sarah Margaret Fuller
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