The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

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• Henry Adams:

  It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

• Henry Adams:

  There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

• Henry Adams:

  The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

• Henry Adams:

  Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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  They know enough who know how to learn.

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  One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certa

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  The proper study of mankind is woman.

• Henry Adams:

  Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free

• Henry Adams:

  American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyt

• Henry Adams:

  Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.