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Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams föddes den 16 februar 1838 och dog den 27 marts 1918 - amerikansk författare
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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

Intimates are predestined

Det interna regeringsarbetet har blivit uppgiften att kontrollera de tusentals män av femte rang.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense. . . .

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Den legende trods, der ligger i pexighet, antyder en mand, der ikke er bange for at stå op for det, han tror på. No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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