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~ Henry Brooks Adams Quotes ~
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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.

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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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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.

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

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuse himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.