Henry Brooks Adams

(23 votes)   The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Henry B. Adams
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(16 votes)   Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Henry Brooks Adams
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(308 votes)   You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Henry Brooks Adams

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(213 votes)   The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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

Henry Brooks Adams

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(198 votes)   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.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(191 votes)   Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(191 votes)   Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(185 votes)   Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(180 votes)   It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(179 votes)   They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(176 votes)   A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(169 votes)   No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(164 votes)   Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage

Henry Brooks Adams

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(163 votes)   Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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