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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
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His brothers were the type he was the variation.
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Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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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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The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry Adams
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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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
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The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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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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Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
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Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerised the subject.
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Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.
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History is only a value of relation.
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
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