"A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism."
"One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned."
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Source: Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.131
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