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Henry Adams Quotes
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Famous Henry Adams Quotations
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Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918) was an American novelist, journalist, historian and academic
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- A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Adams »
- A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. Henry Adams »
- Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. Henry Adams »
- Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams »
- It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own. Henry Adams »
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Henry Adams »
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams »
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. Henry Adams »
- One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Henry Adams »
- Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams »
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams »
- 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. Henry Adams »
- 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. Henry Adams »
- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry Adams »
- What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams »
- Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely. Henry Adams »
- 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. Henry Adams »
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