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Certain Quotes by Henry Adams
- The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain…
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,…
- As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness…
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life…
- One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,…
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