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A good book is fruitful of other books it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
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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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
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