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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
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Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
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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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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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Opposition strengthens the manly will.
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