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Horace Mann: It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to…

It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.

In today’s wordsIt has long seemed to me that it would honor our ancestors more to praise them less in words and imitate them more in deeds.

Horace MannCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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