“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.”
– Margaret Fuller, “Letter to Arthur Buckminster Fuller (20 December 1840)”, The Letters of Margaret Fuller
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