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Henry Adams


American
February 16, 1838
Historian
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The proper study of mankind is woman.


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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.


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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.


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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.


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


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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.


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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.


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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.


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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.


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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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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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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
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