Quotes of Henry Brooks Adams

“ You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! ”

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Assembly

“ The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin. ”

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Award

“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. ”

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Barrier

“ It is impossible to underrate human intelligence — beginning with one's own. ”

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Belittle

“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. ”

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Barrier

“ The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin. ”

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Bestow

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”

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Bore

“ You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! ”

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Conference

“ 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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Community

“ No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ”

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Congress

“ You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! ”

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Congress

“ Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ”

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Carry

“ Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ”

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Contaminate

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”

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Class

“ 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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Comrade

“ Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ”

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Chaos

“ Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ”

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Companionship

“ Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation. ”

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Code

“ Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ”

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Consist

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

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Cemetery

“ Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ”

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Chao

“ Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible only to himself. ”

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Deficiency

“ It is impossible to underrate human intelligence — beginning with one's own. ”

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Disparage

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”

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Domestic

“ The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin. ”

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Distressed

“ No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ”

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Doubt

“ No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ”

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Distrust

“ No historian can take part with — or against — the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. ”

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Destruction

“ Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ”

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Dreadful

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”

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“ You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! ”

“ The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin. ”

“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. ”

“ It is impossible to underrate human intelligence — beginning with one's own. ”

“ We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. ”

“ The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin. ”

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”

“ You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! ”

“ 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. ”

“ No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ”

“ You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! ”

“ Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ”

“ Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ”

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ”

“ Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ”

“ Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation. ”

“ Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ”

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

“ Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ”

“ Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible only to himself. ”

“ It is impossible to underrate human intelligence — beginning with one's own. ”

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”

“ The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin. ”

“ No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ”

“ No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ”

“ No historian can take part with — or against — the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. ”

“ Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic. ”

“ As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. ”