[ henry brooks adams Quotes ]
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
[ Power ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
[ Chance ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
[ Order ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
[ Possibilities ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
[ Morality ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
[ President ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
[ Humankind ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
[ Men and Women ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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They know enough who know how to learn.
[ Education ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
Henry Brooks Adams
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