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" Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. "
Henry Adams
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" No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. "
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" No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. "
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" 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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" The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. "
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" We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. "
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" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "
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" Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. "
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" A friend in power is a friend lost. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. "
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" Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. "
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" 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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" One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. "
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" Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. "
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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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" It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. "
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" The proper study of mankind is woman. "
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" 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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" He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "
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" Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. "
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" It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. "
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" Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. "
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