Henry Brooks Adams Quotes & Quotations

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» 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.

» Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

» They know enough who know how to learn.

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

» 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.

» The proper study of mankind is woman.

» A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

» The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

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