Quotations by Horatio Alger

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Born: Friday, January 13, 1832
Died: Tuesday, July 18, 1899 (67 years old)
Profession: Author
Nationality: American

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
(Keywords: Happiness, Life, College, Years)

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
- Horatio Alger
(Keywords: Confession, Night, Prayer)

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
- Horatio Alger
(Keywords: History, Chivalry, Remarkable)

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.
- Horatio Alger
(Keywords: Art, War, Chivalry, Parents, Poverty, School, Youth)