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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
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The less routine the more life.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
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