State House Museum

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    “Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
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    “Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 60, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)