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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
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 head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
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Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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