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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Society]
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Taste]
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Possibilities]
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [President]
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Liberty]
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Order]
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Facts]
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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.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Friends and Friendship]
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Inferiority]
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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 Brooks Adams - [America]
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
~ Henry Brooks Adams - [Chance]
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