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Letter "H" » Henry Brooks Adams Quotes
«A friend in power is a friend lost.»
«They know enough who know how to learn.»
«Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile»
«You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!»
«Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled»
«Morality is a private and costly luxury»
«Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.»
«The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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Advertising,
Power,
Publicity
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aggravation, aggravations, publicity, tumor
«No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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Meaning
«One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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Friends
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