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Amos Bronson Alcott on Books

1799–1888 United States

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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