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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
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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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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