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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Written by Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Written by Henry Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Written by Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Written by Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Written by Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Written by Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Written by Henry Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Written by Henry Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Written by Henry Adams
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Written by Henry Adams

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