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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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" American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. "

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" Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. "

" We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. "

" Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. "

" A friend in power is a friend lost. "

" Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. "

" Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. "

" Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. "

" Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. "

" Intimates are predestined. "

Henry Adams

Predestined

" No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. "

" He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. "

" Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. "

" Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. "

" No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. "

" 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. "

" Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. "

" Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. "

" The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. "

" Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. "

" Friends are born, not made. "

" Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. "

" 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. "

" No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. "

" Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. "