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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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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A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
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Easy come, easy go... Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing schemes don't work, they are just not logical
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Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
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