Quote#Freedom
The creation is a museum, all full, and crowded with wonders and…
Quote byHorace Mann · 1796–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867), p. 48.
English (original)
The creation is a museum, all full, and crowded with wonders and beauties and glories. One door, and one only is open, by which you can enter this magnificent temple. It is the door of Knowledge. The learned laborer, the learned peasant, or slave, is ever made welcome at this door, while the ignorant, though kings, are shut out.
— Horace Mann
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