Tag: Henry Adams

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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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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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.

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