Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.Amos Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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