Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often gr…

Louisa May Alcott
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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better. ✨ Louisa May Alcott (2018). Louisa May Alcott Collection, p.1224, Youcanprint
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