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History is only a value of relation.
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
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Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
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Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
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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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The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.
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The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
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Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
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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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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
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The gothic is singular in this one seems easily at home in the renaissance one is not too strange in the Byzantine as for the Roman, it is ourselves and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind all these styles seem modern when we come close to them but the gothic gets away.
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Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.
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American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.
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Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Society is immoral and immortal it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.
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By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.
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The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
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