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Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799March 4, 1888) was an American teacher and writer. He is remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional school as well as a utopian community known as "Fruitlands", and for his association with Transcendentalism. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

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"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."

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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."

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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 and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."

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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

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"Our ideals are our better selves."

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

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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."

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