Henry Brooks Adams Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!"
Oliver Wendell Holmes &bull Reputation

"The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each."
Unknown Source &bull Words

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."
William James &bull Life

"There is not grief that does not speak."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow &bull Grief

"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."
Samuel Johnson &bull Pleasure

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(1838-1918) American historian, journalist and novelist.

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

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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