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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  --Henry Adam, The Education of Henry Adam...
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence ends.
  -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) "The Education of Henry Adams" (1907)...
• The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved.
  One can trust nobody and nothing. -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) "Letters of Henry Adam...
• Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds.
  -- Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adam...
• 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 (1838-1918), "The Education of Henry Adams", 1907...
• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
  -- Henry Adam...
• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
  -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)...
• 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....
• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. -- Henry Adam