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Horace Mann Quote

“In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”

— Horace Mann

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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