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| HENRY BROOKS ADAMS |
| �A friend in power is a friend lost.� �A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.� �American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.� �As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it�s a bore.� �Friends are born, not made.� �Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.� �One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.� �Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.� �They know enough who know how to learn.� |
| (1838-1918) US educator & historian, wrote biographies, history texts & novels, grandson of President John Quincy Adams |