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As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Mathematician
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Boston
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Frances Snow Compton
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One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
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Teachers affect eternity no one can tell where their influence stops.
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Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops it was the very best substitute for religion a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
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As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.
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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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For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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