"A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism."
"My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages."
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Source: Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.133
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