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Henry Adams Quotes

Henry Adams -- Quote #1

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. -- Henry Adams

Henry Adams -- Quote #2

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 Adams

Henry Adams -- Quote #3

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. -- Henry Adams

Henry Adams -- Quote #4

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own. -- Henry Adams

Henry Adams -- Quote #5

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

Henry Adams -- Quote #6

A friend in power is a friend lost. -- Henry Adams

Henry Adams -- Quote #7

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

Henry Adams -- Quote #8

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. -- Henry Adams

Henry Adams -- Quote #9

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

Henry Adams -- Quote #10

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

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