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- A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Henry Adams
- Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
- No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.
- Henry Adams
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams
- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1906
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