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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
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Bronson Alcott
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Debate
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Labor humanizes, exalts.
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A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
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Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
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No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
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Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
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A birthday is a good time to begin a new throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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The richest minds need not large libraries.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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