Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

— Amos Bronson Alcott Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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