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Henry B. Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry B. Adams
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry B. Adams
Intimates are predestined.
Henry B. Adams
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Henry B. Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry B. Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry B. Adams
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.