Author Topic: ~ Henry Brooks Adams Quotes ~  (Read 1981 times)

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Re: ~ Henry Brooks Adams Quotes ~
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2014, 11:42:40 PM »
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

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Re: ~ Henry Brooks Adams Quotes ~
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2014, 11:43:09 PM »
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.

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Re: ~ Henry Brooks Adams Quotes ~
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2014, 11:43:40 PM »
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.