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“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”

Henry Adams · Intelligence

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Henry Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage

Henry Adams

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

Society

Henry Adams

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.

Trust

Henry Adams

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.

Life