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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

— Amos Bronson Alcott Table-Talk (1877)

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

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