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Such Quotes by Henry Adams
- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
- The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which…
- A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an…
- A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One…
- You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an…
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