Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Horatio Alger

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age.

American - Author | January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899

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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.

Horatio Alger

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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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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Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Horatio Alger

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