Horatio Alger

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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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

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

— Horatio Alger

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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. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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