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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
- Henry Adams
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#Nothing
#Purpose
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
- Henry Adams
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#Companionship
#Marriage
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- Henry Adams
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#Knowledge
#Nature
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
- Henry Adams
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#Own
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
- Henry Adams
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#Publicity
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Adams
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#Politics
#Practical
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams
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#Intelligence
#Underestimate
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- Henry Adams
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
- Henry Adams
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#Too Much
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
- Henry Adams
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#Wherever
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Henry Adams
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#Purpose
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- Henry Adams
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#Philosophy
#Problems
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
- Henry Adams
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- Henry Adams
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- Henry Adams
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#Whatever
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams
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#Facts
#Ignorance
#Science
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.
- Henry Adams
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#Wealth
They know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry Adams
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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.
- Henry Adams
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#Community
#Friendship
#Life
#Three
A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Henry Adams
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Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
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#Friendship
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
- Henry Adams
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#Only
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#Woman
#Wrong
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
- Henry Adams
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#Law
#Man
#Nature
#Order
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams
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#He
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#Teacher
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry Adams
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#Habit
#History
#Life
#Order
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- Henry Adams
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