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Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
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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Bronson Alcott
Travel
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Kings
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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.
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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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Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
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The less routine the more life.
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A good style fits like a good costume.
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
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I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
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Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
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Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
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The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
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One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
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Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
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The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
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