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Letter "H" » Henry Brooks Adams Quotes
«The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin»
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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Principles
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contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own»
«Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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Politics
«Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels»
«What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.»
«A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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Belief
«Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts»
«Intimates are predestined»
«The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men»
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