Henry Adams



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"Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage."

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"A friend in power is a friend lost."

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"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."

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"Friends are born, not made."

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"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own."

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"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

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"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts."

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"One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible."

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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

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"The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone."

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"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies."

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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."

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"Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely."

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"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn."

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"You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength."

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