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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.
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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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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