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Man is an imperceptible atom ...

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The press is the hired agent ...

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The American man is a very si...

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The whole fabric of society w...

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

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If Washington were President ...

If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one's self a part of it. If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

That the American, by tempera...

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

I think that Lee should have ...

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

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History will die if not irrit...

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

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It is now conceded that all i...

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

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Simplicity is the most deceit...

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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Practical politics consists i...

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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Only on the edge of the grave...

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

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No man, however strong, can s...

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

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A man must now swallow more b...

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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Chaos often breeds life, when...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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I tell you the solemn truth, ...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

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The Indian Summer of life sho...

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.

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A teacher affects eternity; h...

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

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Young men have a passion for ...

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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If our minds could get hold o...

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

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