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Henry B. Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry B. Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry B. Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry B. Adams
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 B. Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry B. Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry B. Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.