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Horatio Alger [1832-1899] American
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Horatio Alger Jr. was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. 

Art, Happiness, War



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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. Happiness
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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. Art, War
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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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The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
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