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A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
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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The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
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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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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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