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Adagia

InferredFuller labels this a "proverb"—"Honores mutant mores" ("Honors change manners/customs")—a standard Latin proverb widely circulated in English from the early modern period and recorded in collections such as Erasmus's *Adagia*.

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to James Nathan

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“But it may be that "honors will change manners" as the proverb threatens, the rather as I can be of no use to him, am connected with a paper of the hostile party”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller labels this a "proverb"—"Honores mutant mores" ("Honors change manners/customs")—a standard Latin proverb widely circulated in English from the early modern period and recorded in collections such as Erasmus's Adagia.