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They know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
- Henry Brooks Adams
(1838 - 1918, American historian)
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