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All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about experience

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about water, society, americans

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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Friends are born, not made.

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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about chaos, law, dream, order, word, nature, man

Intimates are predestined.

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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about man, world, good, good luck

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about intelligence, beginning, impossible, human imperfections

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

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Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about intelligence, faith, good, good luck, man

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about word, thinking, man

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about ignorance, education, nothing

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about friendship, thinking, life

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

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