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Henry Adams
 
Date of birth: 16 February 1838
Date of death: 27 March 1918
Country Of Origin: America
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   Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian, journalist and novelist. The son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. and Abigail Brooks Adams, he was a member of the Adams political family.

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Born in Boston into one of the country's most prominent families (both his great-grandfather and his grandfather had been Presidents of the United States), Adams, after his graduation from Harvard in 1858, embarked on a Grand Tour of Euro .... (More...)
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" A friend in power is a friend lost. "

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" Friends are born, not made. "

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" No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself."

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" No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. "

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" Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts. "

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

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