Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

— Amos Bronson Alcott Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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