Henry Adams Quotes and Quotations
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. A friend in power is a friend lost. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. They know enough who know how to learn. 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. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. 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. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean. Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. A friend in power is a friend lost. A friend in power is a friend lost. A friend in power is a friend lost. A friend in power is a friend lost. A friend in power is a friend lost. A friend in power is a friend lost. A friend in power is a friend lost. A friend in power is a friend lost.
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