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A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry AdamsPower - 2
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsTeachers and Teaching - 3
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsLiberty - 4
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry AdamsChance - 5
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry AdamsSociety -
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
Henry AdamsUnited States of America - 7
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsOrder - 8
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry AdamsTaste - 9
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
Henry AdamsPossibilities - 10
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry AdamsMorality - 11
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsInferiority - 12
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsWords - 13
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry AdamsFact - 14
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.
Henry AdamsFriends and Friendship - 15
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry AdamsPoliticians and Politics -
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry AdamsPresident - 17
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry AdamsPoliticians and Politics - 18
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry AdamsHumankind - 19
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry AdamsMen and Women - 20
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry AdamsEducation - 21
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry AdamsPhilosophers and Philosophy
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