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Henry Brooks Adams

"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius." — Henry Brooks Adams
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Henry Brooks Adams

"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek." — Henry Brooks Adams
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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." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"A friend in power is a friend lost." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"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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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts." — Henry Brooks Adams
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"All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people" — Henry Brooks Adams
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"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile" — Henry Brooks Adams
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"You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!" — Henry Brooks Adams
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"Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled" — Henry Brooks Adams
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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" — Henry Brooks Adams
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"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean" — Henry Brooks Adams
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"Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation" — Henry Brooks Adams
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"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own" — Henry Brooks Adams
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