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Henry Brooks Adams
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. (The Education of Henry Adams)
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Henry Brooks Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
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Henry Brooks Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Henry Brooks Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Henry Brooks Adams
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.
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Henry Brooks Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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Henry Brooks Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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Henry Brooks Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
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Henry Brooks Adams
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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