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Henry Brooks Adams (1838 - 1918) American novelist and journalist.

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Henry Brooks Adams Quotes and Quotations

You say that love is nonsense. ... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

- Henry Brooks Adams | Heartbreak Quotes

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

- Henry Brooks Adams | Family Quotes

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

- Henry Brooks Adams | Morality Quotes