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Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

«A friend in power is a friend lost.»
«They know enough who know how to learn.»
«Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Passion | Keywords: elders, regarding, senile
«You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!»
«Even in America, 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»
«Morality is a private and costly luxury»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Luxury, Morality | Keywords: costly
«Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Race, Science | Keywords: blowing, blowing up
«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»
«No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Meaning
«One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Friends

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