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~ Henry Brooks Adams Quotes ~
« on: September 27, 2014, 11:34:32 PM »
Henry Brooks Adams Quotes


An American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. 
Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918; normally called Henry Adams) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. He is best-known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family.

Here are some famous quotes by Henry Brooks Adams. 




A friend in power is a friend lost.
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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All experience is an arch to build upon.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
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Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2014, 11:38:23 PM »
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2014, 11:38:53 PM »
No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2014, 11:39:22 PM »
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2014, 11:40:00 PM »
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2014, 11:40:33 PM »
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
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« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2014, 11:41:02 PM »
Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2014, 11:41:34 PM »
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2014, 11:42:06 PM »
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuse himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
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