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«A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Teachers and teaching | Keywords: affects, stops
«The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.»
«Friends are born, not made.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Friends
«Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams | About: Chaos, Habit, Life, Order | Keywords: breeds
«In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.»
«Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.»
«All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people»

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