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Letter "H" » Henry Brooks Adams Quotes
«Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage»
«The proper study of mankind is woman.»
«Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense. . . .»
«It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.»
«No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.»
«Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.»
«Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.»
«There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.»
«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.»
«American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.»