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Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
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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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History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
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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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Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense that which they will, is right that which they reject, is wrong and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.
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My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.
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The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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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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The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
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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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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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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.
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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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Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
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A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
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People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.
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