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" A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. "
Henry Adams
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" Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. "
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" The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. "
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" Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. "
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" Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. "
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" A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. "
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" The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. "
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" 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. "
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" Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. "
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" No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. "
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" At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. "
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" Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. "
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" Morality is a private and costly luxury. "
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" We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. "
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" It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. "
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Good Men
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" Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "
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" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "
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History
Life
" All experience is an arch, to build upon. "
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Arch
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" Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. "
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Liberty
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" No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. "
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Rather
Should
" No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. "
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Anything
Fit
" The proper study of mankind is woman. "
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Proper
Mankind
" Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. "
Henry Adams
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Very
Politics
" Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. "
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" He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "
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" There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. "
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" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "
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" A friend in power is a friend lost. "
Henry Adams
Power
Lost
Friend
" 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. "
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Nothing
Trust
Tell
" Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. "
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Education
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