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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams
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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
Journalist
Mathematician
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
Henry Adams
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History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
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The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
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Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
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