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Henry Brooks Adams - From the Artists category:
Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Chaos category:
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Editing category:
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Knowledge category:
They know enough who know how to learn. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Optimism category:
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Order category:
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Philosophy category:
Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Plagiarism category:
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Silence category:
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Taste category:
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Teaching category:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Henry Brooks Adams - From the Words category:
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Henry Brooks Adams)
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