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Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

«Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage»
«The proper study of mankind is woman.»
«Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense. . . .»
«It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Love
«No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | Keywords: schoolmaster
«Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Power | Keywords: Presidents
«Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Politics | Keywords: unsatisfactory
«There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | Keywords: underestimate
«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.»
«American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.»

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