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I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
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There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions one is a continual tendency towards politics the other is family pride and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.
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My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.
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The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.
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One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
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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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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
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I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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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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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
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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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Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
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An artist's business is only to see.
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Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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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 man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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