American - Historian | February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry Adams
PoliticsGameVery
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
IntelligenceUnderestimateAverage
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
WomanManWrongThroughOnlyWho
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
TravelEveryoneTasteOwnWherever
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
LuxuryMoralityPrivateCostly
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
FaithHistoryI AmWrongToo Much
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Intimates are predestined.
Predestined
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
EducationNatureKnowledgeBeginning
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
ManEdgeAnythingOnlyGrave
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
PowerEnergyFactsSeriousMost
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
GeniusForcesHighest
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