Henry Brooks Adams Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

33 Famous Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams
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“Morality is a private and costly luxury.”
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“Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”
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“Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
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“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.”
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“Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.”
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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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“Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage”
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“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
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