Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. — Margaret Fuller · Smartyfair

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Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. — Margaret Fuller · Smartyfair

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Margaret Fuller1810–1850 · writer · 1800s USAMargaret Fuller was an American journalist, critic, and early advocate for women's rights, known for her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century.1 quote

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She worked out young that the point of living is to keep growing.

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What turned up: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852), Vol. I, p. 132; Wikiquote sourced section.
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