American - Historian | February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
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