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History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

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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
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.
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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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Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.
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All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
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Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
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The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
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A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
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Man loves most that which is his own.
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