Horatio Alger quotes
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“The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.”
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“No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.”
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“Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.”
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“The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.”
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“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”
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Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.
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“The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .”
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