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Henry Brooks Adams
Nothing in education...
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert...
Chaos often breeds...
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Source: The Education of Henry...
Philosophy: unintelligible answers...
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Source: Adams's...
No man means...
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is...
American society is...
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is...
Everyone carries his...
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he...
It is impossible...
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
It is always...
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Source: Comment on Robert...
No man likes...
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
A teacher affects...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Source:...
Practical politics consists...
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Source: The Education of Henry...
Absolute liberty is...
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...
As for America,...
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable,...
Politics, whatever its...
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of...
Power is poison....
Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Source: The...
They know enough...
They know enough who know how to learn.
Source: The Education of Henry Adams.
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Morality is a...
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Source: In
Politics, as a...
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of...
One friend in...
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of...
A friend in...
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Source: The Education of Henry Adams.
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